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BALI, THE LOCATION AND GEOGRAPHY
Bali is a small fertile island midway along the string of islands
which makes up the Indonesian archipelago, stretching from
Sumatra in the north-west to Irian Jaya, on the border of
Papua New Guinea, in the South-east. Bali is volcanically
active and extravagantly fertile.
The province of Bali is one of 27 Provinces in Indonesia.
The Bali's Province consist of Bali Island, Nusa Penida,
Nusa Lembongan, Nusa Ceningan, Pulau Menjangan, and other
small island which has the district as wide 5.632,86 km2.
According to Administrative Bali's Province consist of
eight Regencies, one District of municipality, 51 Sub
Districts and 612 Villages.
The Bali 's area located among 7-54 and 8-3 south diagonal
and 114-25 and 115-43 east linear direction. Island of Bali
has strategic location , because it retales the traffic of
mainland and sea between Asia and Australia Continent.
Geographically in the middle of Bali Island spread out east.
Between those mountain range above has same mountains as like
as: Agung Mountain (3,142M), Batur Mountain (1,717M), Abang
Mountain (2.152), Batukaru Mountain (2,26M). Batur and Agung
Mountain is volcano Mountain. Out the mainland. The lakes are:
Batur Lake has (1.607,5Ha), Beratan Lake (375,6Ha), Buyan Lake
(336Ha), Tamlingan Lake has 110Ha. The rivers which sourced
from forest and the like most of them to take flow to the south
side as like as: Unda river, Petanu, Ayung, Pulukan, Balean,
Loloan river and so on.
South and north of the central mountains are Bali's fertile
agricultural lands. The southern region is a wide, gently
sloping area where most of Bali's abundant rice crop is
grown. The south-central area is the true rice basket of
the Island. The northern coastal strip is narrower, rising
more rapidly into the foothills of the central range, but the
main export crops - coffee, copra and rice - are grown here.
Cattle are also raised in this area.
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