Flores, from the Portuguese, which means "flower" in East Nusa Tenggara Province, Indonesia. Flores included in clusters along the Lesser Sunda Islands of Bali and NTB, with an area of about 14,300 km ². Population in Flores, in the year 2007, reaching 1.6 million people. The highest peak is Mount Ranakah (2350m) which is the second highest mountain in East Nusa Tenggara, after Gunung Mutis, 2427m in West Timor. Flores Island with the island of Timor, Sumba and Alor Islands are the four major islands in the province of East Nusa Tenggara province which is one of the Indonesian archipelago with 566 islands. Flores, with area, population and natural resources and human well considered adequate, is now preparing herself to be an expansion in East Nusa Tenggara province. At the western end of Flores Island and east there are several small islands. In the east there are clusters of Lembata Island, Adonara and Solor, while to the west there are clusters of Komodo and Rinca Island. West of the island of Flores, after a cluster of small islands there is the island of Sumbawa (NTB), whereas in the east after a cluster of small islands of the archipelago that there exist Alor.Di southeast of the island of Timor. To the southwest there is the island of Sumba, there is the sea south of Savu, north, across the Sea of Sulawesi, Flores there.
Ethnic Flores is an ethnic mixture of Malays, Melanesians, and Portuguese. Due to the location adjacent to the East, once a Portuguese colony, then the interaction with the Portuguese culture in cultural Flores never happened, either through genetics, Religion, and Culture.
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