Mountain Merbabu
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Key facts
- Elevation
- 3,145 m (10,318 ft)
- Prominence
- 2,432 m (7,979 ft)
- Listing
- Ultra , Ribu
- English translation
- Mountain of ash
- Language of name
- Indonesian
- Parent range
- Sunda Arc
- Rock age
- 700.000 Years
- Mountain type
- Dormant stratovolcano
- Volcanic arc
- Sunda Arc
- Easiest route
- Hike starting near Kopeng
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- Central Java
- Elevation
- 3142
- Time zone
- UTC+07:00
- Image
- Pemandangan Merbabu dari Kota Salatiga (1).jpg
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- Commons category
- Mount Merbabu
- topographic prominence
- 2432
- located in/on physical feature
- Java
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Merbabu (Indonesian: Gunung Merbabu) is a dormant stratovolcano in Central Java province on the Indonesian island of Java. The name Merbabu could be loosely translated as 'Mountain of Ash' from the Javanese combined words; Meru means "mountain" and awu or abu means "ash".
The active volcano Mount Merapi is directly adjacent on its southeast side, while the city of Salatiga is located on its northern foothills. A 1,500m high broad saddle lies between Merbabu and Merapi, the site of the village of Selo, Java, and highly fertile farming land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mountain Merbabu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.