Plawangan is a hill above the town of
Kaliurang, on the southern slopes of
Gunung Merapi
Mount Merapi, ''Gunung Merapi'' (literally Fire Mountain in Indonesian and Javanese), is an active stratovolcano located on the border between the province of Central Java and the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It is the most active ...
, in
Sleman Regency,
Special Region of Yogyakarta,
Indonesia. It is east of
Turgo, which is another named hill above Kaliurang.
Formerly a vulcanological post of the Indonesian
volcanology service, it was abandoned in the 1990s following serious southerly
nuee ardente and gas clouds. Under its western side are large man-made caves and tunnels, said by locals to have been made under the orders of
Japan
Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...
ese military administrators during
World War II.
It is also located within the Plawangan Turgo nature reserve an almost 200 hectares on the slope of Merapi that has rare animals and plants occurring in its area.
External links
Context in 1994 eruption of Merapi
References
Mountains of Indonesia
Sleman Regency
Mount Merapi
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