Sunday, February 20, 2011

Mount Ceremai



Mount Ceremai (often mistakenly called "Ciremai") is administratively included in the three districts, namely Kabupaten Cirebon, Kuningan and Majalengka Regency, West Java Province. The geographical position of the peak is located at 6 ° 53 '30 "latitude and 108 ° 24' 00" east, with an altitude of 3078 m above sea level. This mountain is the highest mountain in West Java.
This mountain has a double crater. Western crater radius is truncated by a crater 400 m east of radius 600 m. At an altitude of about 2900 m asl on the southern slope there are ex-point eruption Gowa called Swallow.

Now G. Ceremai included in Ceremai Mountain National Park (TNGC), which has a total area of approximately 15,000 hectares.

The name is derived from the word mountain cereme (Phyllanthus acidus, a type of plant small shrubs with rada sour fruit), but it is often called Ciremai, a symptom hiperkorek due to the many place names in the region Pasundan that use the prefix 'ci-' for the naming of places.

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