Bada Valley

Bada Valley or Napu Valley, located in the Lore Lindu National Park in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, contains hundreds of megaliths of undetermined age that are called watu ("stone") in the local Badaic languages and arca ("statue") in Indonesian. The purpose of the megaliths and their builders are unknown.

Two Dutch ladies standing by a statue in Bada Valley in the 1930s

Main Megaliths

Megalithic Baula statue in the Bada Valley
Two tourists next to the Palindo megalith in 2015.
Local NameTranslationSizeCommentsLocation
PalindoEntertainer4.5m1°51′34.54″S 120°15′17.79″E
MesingaWearing a Scarf
MaturuSleeping3.5m
ObaMonkey1°52′6.99″S 120°13′53.26″E
Naime
BaulaBuffalo
Torumpana
Ari Ipohi1°52′38.73″S 120°15′20.23″E
LogaRelieved Heart1°51′49.50″S 120°16′46.68″E
Langke BulawaGolden Bracelet1.8m1°51′11.23″S 120°17′29.50″E

See also

Sources

  • Tarling, Nicholas, The Cambridge history of Southeast Asia: From early times to c.1500, p. 134, Cambridge University Press, 1992, ISBN 0-521-35505-2 and ISBN 0-521-35506-0

1°52′48″S 120°15′00″E


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