Moncong Ciduk

Information

Elevation

416 m

Country

Indonesia (ID)

Location / Range

Perbukitan Kecamatan Manuju, Kabupaten Gowa, Sulawesi Selatan (lereng barat rangkaian pegunungan Gowa)

Mountain type

Puncak bukit — diklasifikasikan sebagai fitur "mountain" (kode GNS/NGA: MT) dan dipetakan di OpenStreetMap sebagai natural=peak

Volcanic?

No (non-volcanic)

Coordinates

-5.3013, 119.6528

Difficulty

Tidak terdokumentasi — tidak ditemukan laporan jalur pendakian, basecamp, atau pos registrasi untuk puncak ini

Permits & Rules

Tidak ada informasi izin yang terpublikasi; akses lapangan sebaiknya diminta kepada aparat Desa Pattallikang atau pemilik lahan setempat

Hazards

Tidak ada catatan insiden di puncak ini. Namun Kecamatan Manuju secara umum pernah dilanda kekeringan dan tanah longsor parah pada 2019, sehingga longsor pada lereng curam saat musim hujan dan kelangkaan air saat kemarau adalah risiko kawasan yang wajar diperhitungkan

Description

Moncong Ciduk — the name element "moncong" in Makassarese refers to high, green ground, as explained in the etymology of Moncongloe district in Maros — is a hilltop of roughly 416 m in Pattallikang village, Manuju district, Gowa Regency, South Sulawesi — about 1,400 km east of Jakarta. The feature is recorded in the NGA/GNS toponymic database with the class "MT", from where it fed GeoNames (ID 6736357) and OpenStreetMap, which maps it as a natural=peak node. GeoNames-derived figures give it a prominence of only about 22 m above the surrounding terrain and a base about 0.21 km across, while the nearest higher point reaches roughly 675 m some 1.8 km to the east — so Moncong Ciduk is a minor bump within a larger hill range rather than a free-standing summit. The surroundings are sparsely populated (± 96 people/km²) and dominated by mountainous terrain: all seven villages of Manuju district lie in hill country, and the district suffered severe drought and landslides in 2019. DATA LIMITATION: no hiking source, government page or news coverage discussing Moncong Ciduk specifically could be found; the one Cebuano Wikipedia article is a bot-generated stub derived from GeoNames. The GeoNames elevation of 416 m is consistent with a digital-elevation-model reading at the same point (± 413 m).