Wayang-Windu is a twin volcano that consists of Mount Wayang (
Indonesian: ''Gunung Wayang'', "Mount Shadow") and Mount Windu. They are located just to the east of the town of
Pangalengan
Pangalengan is a district (''Kecamatan'') in the Bandung Regency, Indonesia. It is located south of the major West Java city of Bandung.
Main industries of the Pangalengan district include dairy farming and tourism, the latter arising from the ...
in the
Bandung Regency (''Kabupaten'' or ''District'') in
West Java
West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten ...
,
Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guine ...
, about south of the city of
Bandung. The area has been an active
geothermal project. Mount Wayang has a wide crescentic
crater which holds four groups of
fumarole
A fumarole (or fumerole) is a vent in the surface of the Earth or other rocky planet from which hot volcanic gases and vapors are emitted, without any accompanying liquids or solids. Fumaroles are characteristic of the late stages of volcani ...
s. Mount Windu has a wide crater.
See also
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List of volcanoes in Indonesia
The geography of Indonesia is dominated by volcanoes that are formed due to subduction zones between the Eurasian plate and the Indo-Australian plate. Some of the volcanoes are notable for their eruptions, for instance, Krakatoa for its globa ...
References
Bandung Regency
Mountains of Indonesia
Volcanoes of West Java
Pleistocene lava domes
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