Fatumasin
Sign in to saveFatumasin is a mountain in the district of Liquiçá in Timor-Leste, a country occupying the eastern end of the island of Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Wallacea. The surrounding forest is called Hutan Gunung Maelulu in Indonesian. It is a 13,618 ha mountain forest (or forested mountain) and forms one of the country's Important Bird Areas.
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Fatumasin is a mountain in the district of Liquiçá in Timor-Leste, a country occupying the eastern end of the island of Timor in the Lesser Sunda Islands of Wallacea. The surrounding forest is called Hutan Gunung Maelulu in Indonesian. It is a 13,618 ha mountain forest (or forested mountain) and forms one of the country's Important Bird Areas.
== Description == The mountain stands about 26 km south-west of the national capital of Dili. The forest ranges in elevation from about 800 m upwards to the 1369 m summit. The underlying rocks are non-calcareous and the forest is considered to be more species-rich than most others on the island.
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