Liang Bua
Liang Bua is a limestone cave on the island of Flores, Indonesia, slightly north of the town of Ruteng in Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara. The cave demonstrated archaeological and paleontological potential in the 1950s and 1960s as described by the Dutch missionary and archaeologist Theodor L.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Cave
- Description: Indonesian cave
- Also known as: “Liang Bua cave”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ruteng.
Ruteng
Photo: Jan Markiewicz, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ruteng is a town in the highlands towards the western end of Flores Island, Indonesia. It is the administrative capital of Manggarai Regency, serviced by the Frans Sales Lega Airport or Ruteng Airport.
Liang Bua
- Categories: archaeological site and landform
- Location: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia, Southeast Asia, Asia
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Latitude
-8.53082° or 8° 31′ 51″ southLongitude
120.4435° or 120° 26′ 37″ eastOpen location code
6Q32FC9V+MCOpenStreetMap ID
node 4285191320OpenStreetMap feature
natural=cave_entranceWikidata ID
Q1822737
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Vietnamese—“Liang Bua” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “利昂布阿岩洞”
- Chinese: “梁布亚岩洞”
- Czech: “Liang Bua”
- Dutch: “Liang Bua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليانج بوا”
- French: “grotte de Liang Bua”
- French: “Liang Bua”
- German: “Liang Bua”
- German: “Liang-Bua-Höhle”
- Hebrew: “ליאנג‘ בואה”
- Indonesian: “Liang Bua”
- Malay: “Liang Bua”
- Polish: “Liang Bua”
- Portuguese: “Liang Bua”
- Slovak: “Liang Bua”
- Slovenian: “Liang Bua”
- Spanish: “Liang Bua”
- Thai: “ลียังบูวา”
- Vietnamese: “Hang Liang Bua”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Liang Bua cave (Hobbit cave) and Liang Bua.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Liang Bua”. Photo: Rosino, CC BY-SA 2.0.