kelimutu

KELIMUTU LAKE

This lake famous as one of nine to a miraculous world. This area was first discovered by Van Such Telen, citizen of the Netherlands in the year 1915.
Kelimutu lake located about 51 kilometers east from the town of Ende.
To enjoy the beautiful it, you need a mounting for about 10-15 minutes, from parking lot to the monument of the mountain. So to be visible, the eastern edge there are two lake of each other next to a pro, sometimes the water is pro red, green, and red hearts. Are in the west there was a lake that the water is yellowish brown to learn a black and blue.

In the year 1886, the last erupted of the mountain Kelimutu, and has just three crater lakes of water to its red color (tiwu ata polo), blue (tiwu ko'o fai nuwa muri) and white (tiwu ata bupu).
The three colors that start changed since 1969 when erupted of Mount Iya in Ende.
Lake Kelimutu have spacious about 1,051,000 square meters with a water volume of 1292 million cubic meters. Boundary between the lake is a narrow wall of stone that is easy to landslides and steep, with a sloping angle to 70 degree. And to a high wall around the lake between 50 to 150 meters.

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