Manucoco
Sign in to saveManucoco, also referred to as Gunung Manucoco or Mount Manucoco, is a mountain in the municipality Atauro of Timor-Leste. It stands near the southern end of Atauro Island, at the western end of Wetar Strait, some north of Dili, the nation's capital. The rugged topography of the island's highlands is a result of the erosion of uplifted, originally submarine, volcanoes from the Neogene period creating narrow, dissected ridges and steep slopes, with Manucoco forming the highest point. The upper levels of the mountain (above an elevation of ) still carry patches of tropical semi-evergreen mountain
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- mountain
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- Timor-Leste
- Located in
- Dili
- Elevation
- 999
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Manucoco, also referred to as Gunung Manucoco or Mount Manucoco, is a mountain in the municipality Atauro of Timor-Leste. It stands near the southern end of Atauro Island, at the western end of Wetar Strait, some north of Dili, the nation's capital. The rugged topography of the island's highlands is a result of the erosion of uplifted, originally submarine, volcanoes from the Neogene period creating narrow, dissected ridges and steep slopes, with Manucoco forming the highest point. The upper levels of the mountain (above an elevation of ) still carry patches of tropical semi-evergreen mountain forest in sheltered valleys, covering about . The mountain, along with the whole of Atauro Island, has been identified as an Important Bird Area by BirdLife International because it supports populations of several of Timor’s and Wetar's restricted-range native bird species.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Manucoco” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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