Tangkuban Perahu

Mount or Mount Tangkuban Parahu Tangkuban Perahu is one of the mountain which is located in the province of West Java, Indonesia. About 20 km to the north of Bandung, with lush pine trees and carpet the surrounding tea gardens, mountain Tangkuban Parahu have a height of up to 2084 meters. The form of this mountain is Stratovulcano center erupsi with the move from east to west. Type of rock that was issued through most of the lava eruption and sulfur, a mineral sulfur sulfur is removed, the mineral is removed when the mountain is not active sulfur fumes. Tangkuban Perahu Mountain area is managed by Perum forestry. An average temperature of 17oC is daily at noon and 2 on the night of the OC.

Mount Tangkuban Parahu have Dipterokarp Hill forest area, forest Dipterokarp Top, Montane forest, and forest Ericaceous mountain or forest.

[edit] Legend local people

Main article for this section are: Legend Sangkuriang

Origins of Mt Tangkuban Parahu Sangkuriang is associated with the legend, the dikisahkan love to his mother, Dayang Sumbi. To counteract his son intention engaged women, Dayang Sumbi submit Sangkuriang create conditions so that the boat in the night. When businesses fail, Sangkuriang angry and kick the boat, so it landed upside down in the circumstances. This boat, which then formed the Mount Tangkuban Parahu.

Mount Tangkuban Parahu this active volcano, including the status monitored continuously by the Directorate Vulkanologi Indonesia. Some kawahnya still shows signs marked this active mountain. Among the signs volcano is the emergence of gas and sulfur sources of hot water at the foot of these mountains it is in kasawan Ciater, Subang.

And the existence of this form of mountain topography in the form of Bandung basin with hills and mountains on each side strengthen the theory of the existence of a lake (crater) is now a large area of Bandung. Believed by the geologist that the Bandung area with high altitude of approximately 709 m above the sea surface is a remnant of the ancient volcano eruption known as Mount Sunda, and Mount Tangkuban Parahu is a remnant of the ancient Mount Sunda still active. Phenomena such as this can be seen on Mount Krakatau in the Sunda region and Ngorongoro in Tanzania, Africa. Sangkuriang so the legend is a story that people believed the area was the documentation is a community area of the ancient Mount sunda events at the time.