Topography of Flores |Location||South East Asia|
|Archipelago||Lesser Sunda Islands| |Area||13,540 km2 (5,228 sq
mi)| |Highest elevation||2,370 m (7,780 ft)| |Highest
point||Poco Mandasawu| |Province||East Nusa Tenggara| |Largest
city||Maumere (pop. 70,000)| |Population||1,831,000 (as of
2010)| |Density||135 /km2 (350 /sq mi)| Flores is one of the
Lesser Sunda Islands, an island arc with an estimated area of
14,300 km² extending east from the Java island of Indonesia. The
population was 1,831,000 in the 2010 census and the largest town
is Maumere. Flores is Portuguese for "flowers". Flores is
located east of Sumbawa and Komodo and west of Lembata and the
Alor Archipelago. To the southeast is Timor. To the south,
across the Sumba strait, is Sumba and to the north, beyond the
Flores Sea, is Sulawesi. Homo floresiensis  In September 2004,
at Liang Bua Cave in western Flores, paleoanthropologists
discovered small skeletons that they described as a previously
unknown hominid species, Homo floresiensis. These are i