Southwest Sumba Regency


Southwest Sumba Regency is a regency on Sumba Island in East Nusa Tenggara province of Indonesia. Established in 2007, the regency has its seat in Tambolaka. Its population was 283,818 in the 2010 decennial census and had risen to 319,119 at the 2015 Intermediate Census, the most of any regency of the island.

Administration

The Southwest Sumba Regency as at the 2010 Census was composed of eight districts, whose areas and 2010 Census populations are listed below: Since 2010, three additional districts have been created within the Regency, by the splitting of existing districts.
NameEnglish nameArea
Population
Census 2010		Population
Census 2015
Kodi74.731,22333,677
Kodi Bangedo197.836,05719,286
Kodi Balaghar--21,049
Kodi UtaraNorth Kodi245.450,86453,345
Kota TambolakaTambolaka city--39,065
Wewewa SelatanSouth Wewewa177.921,69123,689
Wewewa BaratWest Wewewa198.945,48242,010
Wewewa TimurEast Wewewa248.253,91128,145
Wewewa TengahCentral Wewewa--30,382
Wewewa UtaraNorth Wewewa48.911,63812,605
Loura213.934,03715,866

Note: The areas and 2010 Census populations of Kodi Balaghar, Kota Tambolaka and Wewewa Tengah districts are included with the figures for the districts from which they were split.

Tourism

There are a variety of attractions in Southwest Sumba that are still preserved and have their own uniqueness for tourists visiting the location of these attractions are located.
Most areas of Southwest Sumba Regency have potential tourism objects that can be promoted as tourist destinations due to their unique natural, cultural and marine elements. The surrounding natural conditions also support panorama of each tourist attraction because it is still a vast expanse of hills, rivers and lakes, tropical forests, and various wild flora and fauna styles.
Several tourist attractions in this district have been widely explored and visited by a variety of local and foreign tourists, but there are only a few who have access to roads and adequate facilities and infrastructure available, namely Mananga Aba Beach, Mbawana beach, Oro Beach, Kawona Beach, Newa Beach, Pantai Waikelo, Sumba Cultural Home, Lake Saltwater Weekuri, and Pabeti Waterfall.
At present, its existence is a tourist attraction in Southwest Sumba Regency, many of which have begun to be exposed to other tourists through tourists who have visited several tourist attraction locations in this district.