Sulawesi Island

Sulawesi island, covering an area of 174,600 km². surrounded by Borneo , Philippines , Maluku to the east, and by Flores and Timor to the south. It has a distinctive shape, dominated by four large peninsulas. The central part of the island is ruggedly mountainous, such that the island's peninsulas have traditionally been remote from each other, with better connections by sea than by road.

The island is subdivided into six provinces: Gorontalo, West Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, Southeast Sulawesi, and North Sulawesi. West Sulawesi is a new province, created in 2004 from part of South Sulawesi. The largest cities on the island are Makassar, on the southwestern coast of the island, and Manado, on the northern tip.

The highland Toraja climb sheer cliff faces, unaided, to carve deep crypts into solid rock. The Bajau spent their entire lives on the sea, able to dive for so long they are reputed to posses gills. An unknown culture in the remote Bada Valley carved mysterious, Evocative human figure in stone. The Manadonese, isolated at the northern most reaches of the archipelago, are fun-loving and out going in the midst of natural plenty.

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