Flores

However, due to the destructive practice of local fishermen using bombs to fish, and locals selling shells to tourists, the reefs are slowly being destroyed. Tiscali has several meanings:. There is good snorkelling and diving on several locations along the north coast of Flores, most notably Maumere and Riung. Tiscali SpA telecom company based in Italy. The latest colours (late 2004) were said to be turquoise, brown and black. Its main particularity is that Tiscali was completely inside a huge cavern. These coloured lakes change colours on a regular basis. Archaeological village of Nuragici people, in Sardinia, Italy.

The most famous tourist attraction in Flores is Kelimutu; three coloured lakes in the district of Ende. In other places in Indonesia, such as in the Malukus and Sulawesi the divide is less stark and has created bloody conflict. Flores is almost all Catholic and represents one of the "religious borders" created by the Catholic expansion in the Pacific and the spread of Islam from the west across Indonesia. Their influence is still dicernible in Sikka's language and culture.

Portuguese traders and missionaries came to Flores in the 16th century, mainly to Larantuka and Sikka. Locals would probably also add So'a and Bajawa to this list, which anthropologists have labeled dialects of Ngadha. These are from west to east: Ngadha, Nage, Keo, Ende, Lio and Palu'e, which is spoken on the island with the same name of the north coast of Flores. At least six separate languages are identifiable.

Within this area there are slight linguistic differences in almost every village. In the centre of the island in the districts of Ngada and Ende there is what is variously called the Central Flores Dialect Chain or the Central Flores Linkage. There are many languages spoken on the island of Flores, all of them belonging to the Austronesian family. [1].

The discovery has been published in the October 28, 2004 issue of Nature magazine. Local reports of elf-like people, the Ebu Gogo, or the Orang Pendek of Sumatra, have caused speculation that Flores man may have survived into the historical period, or even to the present. They may have existed until as recently as 11,000 BC. Homo floresiensis, affectionately termed hobbits, appear to be miniaturized versions of Homo erectus standing about one metre tall.

In September 2003, at Liang Bua Cave in western Flores, paleoanthropologists discovered skeletons of a previously unknown hominid species. The Flores giant rat is also endemic to the Island. The west coast of Flores is one of the few places, aside from the island of Komodo itself, where the Komodo dragon can be found in the wild. Flores has several active and dormant volcanoes, including Egon, Ilimuda, Lereboleng, and Lewotobi (see the full list).

The island is split into five regencies (local government districts); from west to east these are: Manggarai, Ngada, Ende, Sikka and Flores Timur. Flores is part of the East Nusa Tenggara province. . To the south, across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the Flores Sea, is Sulawesi.

To the southeast is Timor. Flores is located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the Alor archipelago. Flores (Portuguese for "flowers") is one of the Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of 14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. Flores Man special at Nature.com.