Lembata at in Glance

                                            Lembata Regency At Glance.

Formerly Lembata was known as Lomblen or Kawula. It is one of 16 Regencies in East Nusa Tenggara Province in Indonesia. The capital city is Lewoleba town. Lembata is an island Regency in east of Flores island. The island is bordered with :

~ North        : Flores Sea.

~ South        : Savu Sea.

~ East            : Marica Strait.

The width the Regency is 4.620.285 km². It consist of the width of the land is 1.266.390 km² and the width of the ocean is 3.353.895 km². 

Administratively, Lembata is divided into 9 sub districts such as: Ile Ape sub district, East Ile Ape, Lebatukan, Atadei, Nubatukan, Omesuri, Buyasuri, Nagawutung, and the last are Wulandoni. It has 137 Village and 7 Kelurahan (bigger than a Village). The people of Lembata divided into the native, inhabitants and the outsiders. The native in habitants consists of two ethnic, Lamaholot ethnic group and Kedang. The majority people is Lamaholot athnic group spread around 7 sub-districts namely, Ile Ape, East Ile Ape, Nubatukan, Atadei, Nagawutung, Wuladoni and Lebatukan. Sub-district, while Kedang ethnic in two other sub-district Omesuri and Buyasuri sub-district. The person of each ethnic peaking with their own native language and Indonesian language is the official language. Based on population registration on April 2010, showed that total population of Lembata Regency was 124.397 peoples. 

Topographically, Lembata regency consists of coastal area, mountainous and volcanoes areas with its highest volcanoes peak on 1.319 meters on the sea levels of IIe Ape, in the east of Lewoleba town. 

 Lembata has tropical climate. It has two seasons dry and rainy season. Dry season occurs between April or May to October or November, while rainy season occurs between November or December to March or April. 

The temperature at maximum is 30ºC - 33ºC. 

The temperature at minimum is 20ºC - 24ºC. 

The average of wind speed is 8.41 knot. 

The humidity of wind is 72% - 84%

The majority of Lembatanese is Roman Catholic. Moslem, Protestants, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other are the rest. They live in good understanding, love one another. In one side, they converted to those modern religions, but in other side, culturally, they still believe in animist and dynamist. From cultural side Lembatanese puts their believing in the highest power as the creator of the world (Lera Wulan Tana Ekan), Trancendent God, Imanent God.