Bukit Padewatan

Information

Elevation

418 m

Country

Indonesia (ID)

Location / Range

Southwestern Bali hills (Tabanan/Jembrana area), near the Indian Ocean coast

Mountain type

Forested coastal hill (non-volcanic) in the southwestern part of Bali Island

Volcanic?

No (non-volcanic)

Coordinates

-8.4394, 114.9407

Difficulty

Not documented as a regular hiking trail; a low forested hill with no recorded official route

Best Season

Not documented; in general, Bali is drier around May–September (dry season)

Permits & Rules

No specific permit information is documented

Hazards

Field data is very limited; forested terrain and relative remoteness from the main tourist trails

Description

Bukit Padewatan is a low forested hill in the south-western part of the island of Bali, Indonesia. According to the PeakVisor database, its summit reaches about 418 metres above sea level (a DEM-based database on Cebuano Wikipedia records a slightly lower figure of around 398 metres), at coordinates near 8°26′ South and 114°56′ East. The hill has a prominence of about 106 metres above the surrounding terrain and a base width of roughly 1.4 kilometres. The surrounding landscape is mostly hilly, except to the south-west where it is flat and meets the sea. Its land cover is almost entirely forest, with a monsoon climate and annual rainfall of about 2,118 millimetres — wettest in January and driest in September. The nearest higher peak is Mount Batukaru (about 2,350 m), some 20 kilometres to the north-east. Bukit Padewatan has virtually no climbing documentation: there is no record of an official trail, and available information is limited to geographic data from mapping databases and encyclopaedias.