kawah ijen Blue Fire

Kawah Ijen
The Ijen volcano complex is a group of stratovolcanoes in the Banyuwangi Regency of East Java, Indonesia. It is inside a larger caldera Ijen, which is about 20 kilometers wide. The Gunung Merapi stratovolcano is the highest point of that complex. The name "Gunung Merapi" means "mountain of fire" in the Indonesian language (api being "fire"); Mount Merapi in central Java and Marapi in Sumatra have the same etymology. Many other post-caldera cones and craters are located within the caldera or along its rim. The largest concentration of post-caldera cones run east-west across the southern side of the caldera. The active crater at Kawah Ijen has a diameter of 722 metres (2,369 ft) and a surface area of 0.41 square kilometres (0.16 sq mi). It is 200 metres (660 ft) deep and has a volume of 36 cubic hectometres (29,000 acre·ft). The lake is recognised as the largest highly acidic crater lake in the world. It is also a source for the river Banyupahit, resulting in highly acidic and metal-enriched river water which has a significant detrimental effect on the downstream river ecosystem. In 2008, explorer George Kourounis took a small rubber boat out onto the acid lake to measure its acidity. The pH of the water in the crater was measured to be 0.5 due to sulfuric acid.

Blue Fire Crater 
Since National Geographic mentioned the electric-blue flame of Ijen, tourist numbers increased.[citation needed] The phenomenon has occurred for a long time, but beforehand there was no midnight hiking. A two-hour hike is required to reach the rim of the crater, followed by a 45-minute hike down to the bank of the crater. The blue fire is ignited sulphuric gas, which emerges from cracks zat temperatures up to 600 degrees Celsius (1,112 degrees Fahrenheit). Kawah Ijen adalah sebuah danau kawah yang bersifat asam yang berada di puncak Gunung Ijen dengan tinggi 2.443 meter di atas permukaan laut dengan kedalaman danau 200 meter dan luas kawah mencapai 5.466 Hektar. Danau kawah Ijen dikenal merupakan danau air sangat asam terbesar di dunia.

Kawah Ijen berada dalam wilayah Cagar Alam Taman Wisata Ijen, Kabupaten Banyuwangi, Jawa Timur. Setiap dini hari sekitar pukul 02.00 hingga 04.00, di sekitar kawah dapat dijumpai fenomena blue fire atau api biru, yang merupakan keunikan tempat ini, karena pemandangan alami ini hanya terjadi di dua tempat di dunia yaitu Islandia dan Ijen. Dari Kawah Ijen, kita dapat melihat pemandangan gunung lain yang ada di kompleks Pegunungan Ijen, di antaranya adalah puncak Gunung Merapi yang berada di timur Kawah Ijen, Gunung Raung, Gunung Suket, Gunung Rante, dan sebagainya.