COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Uitzicht op de Pangerango vanuit de plantentuin in Buitenzorg TMnr 3728-812

Mount Pangrango is a dormant stratovolcano located in the Sunda Arc of

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 ...

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. The mountain formed by a subduction zone on the southern coast of

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mos ...

facing the

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. It is located about 80 km south of Jakarta, capital of

. It has the height of . Its peak is called ''Mandalawangi''. The mountain located northwest of

Mount Gede Mount Gede or Gunung Gede (''Big Mountain'' in Sundanese) is a stratovolcano in West Java, Indonesia. The volcano contains two peaks with Mount Gede as one peak and Mount Pangrango for the other one. Three major cities, Cianjur, Sukabumi and Bog ...

in the vicinity of Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park.

Name

The name Pangrango is speculated to be originated from two ancient Sundanese words ''Pang'' and ''Rango'' which means "That which huffs and puffs" referring to the past volcanic activity of this mountain.Gunung Pangrango , Gunung Bagging
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Geography

The ''Mandalawangi'' peak of the mountain is a

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where the borders of Bogor, Cianjur and Sukabumi Regency meet. It is the second highest mountain in West Java after Mount Cereme. Mount Pangrango ranked 26th of the Ribus of Indonesia with topographic prominence of . The mountain is clearly seen from Bogor & Sukabumi, while it is slightly obscured by the neighboring

if seen from Cianjur. On a very clear day it can be seen from Jakarta.

References

{{Commons, position=left Pangrango Pangrango Biosphere reserves of Indonesia

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