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Golo Wontong

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Information

Elevation
803 m
Country
Indonesia (ID)
Location / Range
Kabupaten Manggarai, Pulau Flores, Nusa Tenggara Timur
Mountain type
Gunung
Volcanic?
No (non-volcanic)
Coordinates
-8.4895, 120.4428

Description

Golo Wontong is a mountain in Manggarai Regency in the western part of Flores island, East Nusa Tenggara province, Indonesia, with its summit near 8.49°S, 120.44°E. Its elevation is estimated at about 803 m above sea level (from GeoNames/SRTM elevation data). The prefix 'Golo' means hill or mountain in the Manggarai language and is very common in place names across this region. It is recorded as a natural peak in geospatial gazetteers (the NGA GEOnet Names Server, GeoNames and OpenStreetMap), but no open documentation of climbing routes or tourism exists. This profile presents the verified location and elevation data with regional context on Manggarai, and will be expanded as more detailed sources become available.

References

The summary above is compiled from the following sources. Click to explore them yourself.

  1. 1 Wikipedia Kabupaten Manggarai id.wikipedia.org · ID
  2. 2 Encyclopedia Golo Wontong (mountain) — Manggarai Regency, East Nusa Tenggara geonames.org · EN
  3. 3 Encyclopedia Golo Wontong (natural=peak, node 1070155198) openstreetmap.org · ID