Buttu Patiorang

Information

Country

Indonesia (ID)

Location / Range

Perbukitan Kabupaten Polewali Mandar, Sulawesi Barat

Mountain type

Bukit/puncak rendah (non-vulkanik) di dataran berbukit Sulawesi Barat

Volcanic?

No (non-volcanic)

Coordinates

-3.4504, 119.4508

Difficulty

Tidak terdokumentasi

Description

Buttu Patiorang is a low summit in West Sulawesi Province, Indonesia, at roughly 3°27′01″S 119°27′03″E, not far from the coast on its southwestern side. The Cebuano Wikipedia geographic-names database — sourced from the U.S. NGA-GNS gazetteer — records an elevation of about 197 m, with the highest point nearby at about 455 m, roughly 1.1 km to the north. Notably, a check against the open Open-Meteo digital elevation model at the same coordinate instead returns about 543 m; this substantial discrepancy likely reflects imprecision in the NGA-GNS point location (gazetteer coordinates can miss the actual summit), so the exact elevation cannot be confirmed and is deliberately not stated as a single figure. The nearest large town is Polewali, about 12.1 km to the west. The area is largely forested with a population density of about 129 people/km² and a tropical climate; the average temperature is about 23 °C and annual rainfall about 2,500 mm, wettest in May. The point is recorded in OpenStreetMap as natural=peak, sourced from NGA-GNS, and has entries in Wikidata (Q26730052) and GeoNames (7589475). The name "Buttu" means "mountain" in the local language, a naming pattern common across the mountains of western and southern Sulawesi. Note: beyond its position and classification as a mountain, Buttu Patiorang has virtually no verified climbing, trail, or tourism documentation; this profile is deliberately limited to referenceable geographic facts and adds no unsourced claims.