This article is about the Indonesian town. For the community in California formerly with this name, see Famoso, California. For the defunct Canadian bank, see Province of Ontario Savings Office. For the Filipino rice cake, see Pusô.
"Posso" redirects here. For the made-up Possum language, see DoggoLingo § Other_animals.
Town in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
Poso
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Poso in 2015
Sentinel-2 L2A satellite image, featuring the city of Poso in December 2020
Poso (Old Spelling: Posso) is the administrative capital of Poso Regency, Indonesia. It is the main port and transportation hub for the central-southern coast of Central Sulawesi. Its urban area consists of three districts, Poso Kota, North Poso Kota, and South Poso Kota. Poso lies in the middle of the province on the shore of the Gulf of Tomini, right in the central part of Sulawesi Island. With a total population of 47,477 in 2020, it is one of the biggest and oldest towns in the province.[2]
Poso began to develop as a small port town located at the mouth of the Poso River at the end of the 19th century—making it one of the oldest towns in Central Sulawesi, its presence was considered important for the Dutch to control the southern region of Tomini in the early days of their arrival. Poso was the administrative center of Landschap Poso, Onderafdeling Poso, and later Afdeling Poso during colonial times. Amid World War II, the Japanese made Poso one of their military posts. Post-independence, Poso was chosen as the capital of the newly formed Central Sulawesi in 1948 before the capital was moved to Palu in 1951.
The central location of Poso has made it a stopover either from the north to the south, or from west to the east of Sulawesi. It is for this reason that the population of Poso consists of many different ethnicities, religions, and backgrounds. People living in Poso are spread from the coastal area to the mountainous region, with the main sources of income being trade and services.
Poso is crossed by the Trans-Sulawesi National Highway and served by Kasiguncu Airport, linking it to other cities in Sulawesi such as Palu and Makassar.
^Badam Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
^"Selayang Pandang Kota Poso". Pemerintah Kabupaten Poso (in Indonesian). February 8, 2016. Archived from the original on January 8, 2017. Retrieved January 14, 2017.
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