Mount Bromo (from Sanskrit / Old Javanese: Brahma, one of the main Hindu
gods), the volcano is still active and most famous as a tourist
attraction in East Java. As a tourist attraction, Mount Bromo become
attractive because of its status as the volcano is still active.
Bromo
has a height of 2392 meters above sea level is located in four regions,
namely Probolinggo, Pasuruan, Lumajang, and Malang. Mount Bromo mesh
body shape between valleys and canyons with the caldera or the sea of
sand covering some 10 square kilometers.
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Mount Bromo has a crater with a diameter of ± 800 feet (north-south) and
± 600 meters (east-west). While the danger area of a circle with a
radius of 4 km from the central crater of Bromo.
During the
twentieth century, the mountain is popular as a tourist it erupted three
times, with regular time intervals, namely 30 years. The biggest
eruptions occurred in 1974, while the last eruption occurred in 2010.
Bromo
eruption history: 2010, 2004, 2001, 1995, 1984, 1983, 1980, 1972, 1956,
1955, 1950, 1948, 1940, 1939, 1935, 1930, 1929, 1928, 1922, 1921, 1915,
1916, 1910, 1909, 1907, 1908, 1907, 1906, 1907, 1896, 1893, 1890, 1888,
1886, 1887, 1886, 1885, 1886, 1885, 1877, 1867, 1868, 1866, 1865, 1865,
1860, 1859, 1858, 1858, 1857, 1856, 1844, 1843, 1843, 1835, 1830, 1830,
1829, 1825, 1822, 1823, 1820, 1815, 1804, 1775, and 1767.
For residents of Bromo Tengger tribe, Mount Brahma (Bromo), believed to
be a sacred mountain. Once a year the community held a ceremony Yadnya
Tengger Kasada or Kasodo. The ceremony was held at a temple which is
under the foot of Mount Bromo and proceed north to the top of Mount
Bromo. The ceremony was held at midnight to early morning every full
moon around 14 or 15 in Kasodo (tenth) according to the Javanese
calendar.
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