History Bogor City
As a part of West Java Province, Bogor City is the nearest territory to the capital city of Indonesia, Jakarta. It is about 60 km to Jakarta and 120 km to Bandung. Bogor City is known as a rainy town for the amount of rainfall is very high. Bogor city is surrounded by Mount Salak, Mount Pangrango and Mount Gede. Bogor city has many old and unique historical buildings and scientific tourism asset such as Bogor Botanical Garden. The garden is situated in between two big rivers, Ciliwung and Cisadane.
The width of Bogor City area is 11.850 hectares or 0.27 percents of width of the West Java Province. Administratively, this city consists of 6 (six) Sub-districts, they are the South of Bogor Sub-district, the East of Bogor, the west of Bogor, the North of Bogor, the Centre of Bogor and Tanah Sareal, and covering 68 (sixty-eight) villages.
This City lies on 106 480 East Longitude and 6 360 South Longitude along with the minimum average attitude of 190 meters, maximum 350 meters, slope declivity about 0-3%, 4-15%, 16-30% and over 40%, surrounded by mount Salak, Pangrango and Gede. From Jakarta the Capital City, the distance is + 60 km away.Bogor city also known as “The Rainy City”, as the city has high rainfall rate 3,500 to 4,000 millimeter / year. The City's altitude is about 190-330 meters above the sea level, causing the average temperature is 260 C 21,8 o C, the humidity + 70%.
