Mount Kelud

volcano, Indonesia

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eruptions

  • Indonesia
    In Indonesia: Volcanoes

    Mount Kelud (5,679 feet [1,731 metres]), near Kediri in eastern Java, can be particularly devastating, because the water in its large crater lake is thrown out during eruption, causing great mudflows that rush down into the plains and sweep away all that is before them.

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physiography of Java

  • In Kediri

    … (8,409 feet [2,563 metres]) and Mount Kelud (5,679 feet [1,731 metres]). Teak is obtained from its forests, and its fertile plains produce rice, sugarcane, cotton, cassava, corn (maize), peanuts, coconuts, soybeans, and—from estates—coffee, cocoa, quinine, tobacco, and indigo. The area’s chief city is Kediri.

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