Key facts
- Elevation
- 3,432 m (11,260 ft)
- Prominence
- 3,328 m (10,919 ft) , Ranked 65th
- Listing
- Ultra , Ribu
- Location
- Central Java , Indonesia
- Parent range
- Sunda Arc
- Mountain type
- Stratovolcano
- Volcanic arc
- Sunda Arc
- Last eruption
- March to September 2014
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Relief Map Mount Slamet eruption, August 26, 2014
Mount Slamet (Indonesian: Gunung Slamet, "Salvation Mountain" or "Mountain of Health") is an active stratovolcano that summits in the Pemalang Regency of Central Java, Indonesia. It has a cluster of around three dozen cinder cones on the lower southeast and northeast flanks and a single cinder cone on the western flank. The volcano is composed of two overlapping edifices. Four craters are found at the summit. Mount Slamet is a location with the coldest average temperature on the island of Java and one of the areas with the highest annual rainfall in Indonesia, namely 8,134.00 millimeters (mm) per year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mountain Slamet” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.