Kawah Putih is a tourist spot in West Java which is located in Ciwidey. White is a crater lake formed by the eruption of Mount Patuha. Soil mixed with sulfur around the crater is white, and the color of water in the crater is greenish white, unique of this crater is sometimes discolored water. The crater is located at an altitude +2090 m below the peak / highest point Patuha.
Great eruption by Patuha in the 10th century led many to assume that this location is haunted region because every bird that flew over the region will die. Because of these beliefs, no one dared to approach this region until finally in 1837 there was an expert named Dr. Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn who decided to go to the top Patuha for the sake of science.
Dr Franz Wilhelm Junghuhn reached the top Patuha and from there he saw there was a lake is white with the smell of sulfur which menyegat. Since then, the existence of the White crater became famous and in 1987 the government began to develop as a tourist White crater.
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