Cimahi is a city located west of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia

Cimahi

Cimahi is a city located west of Bandung, West Java, Indonesia in the Bandung Metropolitan Area. The city is a major textile producer exporter, and is host to several military education facilities.
Under the colonial Dutch East Indies government Cimahi was the location of one of the region's main military sites.
The northern part of the city is hillier than the rest; the distinguished truncated flat-peak shape of the Tangkuban Parahu volcano and the Burangrang Mountain (the inactive part of the once Vulcanic Mount Sunda) can be seen from the city to the north. Long-term volcanic activity has created fertile andisol soil in the north, suitable for intensive rice, fruit, tea, tobacco and coffee plantations. To the east of cimahi there was Tagog apu (a limestone hill, a remnant of the 20-30 Million Years old bandung sea).
Recent geological investigations indicate that the oldest lake deposits has been radiometrically dated as old as 125 thousand years. The lake ceased to exist at 16000 Before present.
There had been two Plinian type of eruptions of ancient Mount Sunda dated respectively at 105000 and 55000-50000 BP. The 2nd plinian eruption has caused ancient Gunung Sunda’s caldera to collapse and create mount Tangkuban Parahu, Mount Burangrang, and Mount Bukit Tunggul.
It is more likely that the ancient Sundanese have lived in the Bandung area long before 16,000 years BP and witnessed the 2nd Plinian eruption which wiped out settlements west of the Cikapundung river during the 55000-50000 eruption period when Mount Tangkuban Parahu was created from the remnants of ancient Mount Sunda. This era was the era of homo sapiens; they have been identified in South Australia as old as 62000 BP, while on Java the Wajak man has been dated about 50000 BP.
Cimahi started known publicly in 1811, When Governor General Daendels made the Anyer-Panarukan Roads, which connect Java Island from its western to its eastern end. there was built a security post, known as LOJI in Cimahi square. Furthermore around 1874-1893, in Cimahi a railroads station was built as a sub station that connect Bandung to Cianjur. 1886 was marked as Cimahi military era, when the Dutch colonialism built military training and education center from infantry, cavalry, supply, and other facility such as Dustira Army Hospital and latter on the army Housing complex KPAD Sriwijaya. There is a Dutch military cemetery, Villages of Leuwigajah, maintained and occasionally visited by Dutch visitors to West Java. In the Year 1935 Cimahi was formed as Subdistrict. In 1962 it was enhanced to became Regency (Kawedanan or Kabupaten) with its four Sub District Cimahi, Padalarang, Batujajar, and Cipatat. and alongside its journey on 1975 with Government Rule no 25 (PP no 29 tahun 1975) it received higher status as an administrative city (a resident which will become a city), which officially announced by the Indonesian government on 29 January 1976. Finally Based on Law No 9 in 2001 ( UU No 9 Tahun 2001) cimahi was publicly announced as a whole city, a cimahi city, which has a fully autonomy rule on its government, healtcare, education and culture, defense, trade and other thing except foreign affair.
The city area in 2001 was 40.25 square kilometres. The city administration is divided into 3 subdistricts and 15 Villages (Kelurahan). A mayor (walikota) leads the city administration with the help of the city council members or known as the Regional People's Representative Council (DPRD - Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat Daerah).
Taman Kupu-kupu or Butterfly Garden at Cihanjuang, Cimahi except has butterfly breeding, has also rabbit breeding.

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