Lumajang Regency is a

Regency A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...

(''kabupaten'') located in the

East Java East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern and ...

province of

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. It covers an area of 1,790.90 sq. km, and had a population of 1,006,458 at the 2010 Census and 1,119,251 at the 2020 Census. It shares its land borders with

Jember Regency Jember Regency is a regency of East Java province, Indonesia. The population was 2,332,726 at the 2010 census and 2,536,729 at the 2020 Census. Its administrative capital is the urban area of Jember, which with 359,184 inhabitants in 2020 is th ...

(to the east), Probolinggo Regency (to the north), and

Malang Regency The Malang Regency is a regency in East Java, Indonesia. Malang Regency is the second largest regency in East Java after Banyuwangi Regency, with a total area of 3,530.65 km2. Malang is rich in potential for agriculture, medicinal plants an ...

(to the west), while it borders the

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to the south.

Geography

Lumajang is located approximately 150 km southeast of

Surabaya Surabaya ( jv, ꦱꦸꦫꦧꦪ or jv, ꦯꦹꦫꦨꦪ; ; ) is the capital city of the Indonesian province of East Java and the second-largest city in Indonesia, after Jakarta. Located on the northeastern border of Java island, on the M ...

. Its temperature ranges between 24 °C to 32 °C.

History

Lumajang is one of the ancient cities in Java which still exist up to this day. According to Mula Malurung artifact (dated 1177 Saka), Lumajang was then ruled by King Nararyya Kirana Sminingrat. The date of the artifact, which is 15 December 1255 in the

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, was decided as the date of establishment of Lumajang.

Menhir A menhir (from Brittonic languages: ''maen'' or ''men'', "stone" and ''hir'' or ''hîr'', "long"), standing stone, orthostat, or lith is a large human-made upright stone, typically dating from the European middle Bronze Age. They can be found ...

s found in the districts of Senduro, Gucialit, Sukodono, Klakah, and Lumajang reveal that in

prehistoric Prehistory, also known as pre-literary history, is the period of human history between the use of the first stone tools by hominins 3.3 million years ago and the beginning of recorded history with the invention of writing systems. The us ...

times, the present area of Lumajang had already been inhabited long before the date of Mula Malurung artifact.

Administrative districts

Lumajang Regency is divided into 21

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(''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and their populations at the 2010 Census) and the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. The districts are further subdivided into 202 villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'').

Demographics

The population comprises Javanese, Madurese,

Chinese Indonesians Chinese Indonesians ( id, Orang Tionghoa Indonesia) and colloquially Chindo or just Tionghoa are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese people and their Indonesian descendants have ...

, and Tenggerese.

Climate

Lumajang has a

tropical savanna climate Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry winter) and ''As'' (for a dry summer). The driest month has less than of ...

(Aw) with moderate to little rainfall from May to September and heavy to very heavy rainfall from October to April.

Places of interest

* Agrowisata Royal Family (agro, fruit picking centers, outbound, and family vacation spot) * Selokambang—a natural swimming pool * The Triangle Lake, which consists of three

crater lake Crater Lake ( Klamath: ''Giiwas'') is a volcanic crater lake in south-central Oregon in the western United States. It is the main feature of Crater Lake National Park and is famous for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fill ...

s (Ranu Klakah, Ranu Bedali, Ranu Pakis) * Ranu Pane, Ranu Regulo, Ranu Kumbolo—crater lakes at the slope of Mount Semeru * Mount Semeru * Tetes Cave * Mandara Giri Temple * Piket Nol (highway place where we can see Cold Lava from Semeru) *

Tumpak Sewu Waterfalls Tumpak Sewu, also known as Coban Sewu, is a tiered waterfall that is located between the Pronojiwo District, Lumajang Regency, and the Ampelgading District, Malang Regency, in East Java, Indonesia. The waterfall is overshadowed by Semeru, an activ ...

References

External links

Official website

Tourism site
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