Pacitan is a regency located in the southwestern East Java

East Java

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 Province, with Central Java

Central Java

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 Province on its west border. Located between 7.55° - 8.17°S and 110.55° - 111.25°E. The borders of Pacitan Regency are: Wonogiri Regency

Wonogiri

Wonogiri is a regency in the southeastern part of Central Java province in Indonesia. Its capital is Wonogiri.-Administrative division:Wonogiri Regency is divided into several sub-districts as follows: Baturetno, Batuwarno, Bulukerto, Eromoko, Girimarto, Giritontro, Giriwoyo, Jatipurno, Jatiroto,...

 (Central Java) in the west, Ponorogo Regency

Ponorogo

Ponorogo is a regency of East Java, Indonesia. It is known as the location of the origin of Indonesian traditional show, the Reog Ponorogo.Ponorogo is located in East Java...

 and Wonogiri Regency in the north, Trenggalek Regency

Trenggalek

Trenggalek is a regency in East Java, Indonesia. The central government is located in Trenggalek Kota, which literally means "Trenggalek City"....

 in the east, and Indian Ocean

Indian Ocean

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 in the south. The capital of Pacitan Regency is Pacitan.

Geography

The area of Pacitan Regency is about 1,342.42 km². Most of it are mountainous and rocky, and having some rocky canyon. That kind of area covers about 88% of the regency, and this is because Pacitan is located in the Thousand Mountains that stretched along Java. The highest mountain in Pacitan is Mount Lima in Kebonagung, and Mount Gembes in Bandar as the spring of Grindulu River.

Comparison of the land conditions:

• Flat (0 - 5% steepness) = 53.7 km² (40%)
• Bumpy (6 - 10% steepness) = 134.24 km² (10%)
• Wavy (11 - 30% steepness) = 322.18 km² (24%)
• Hilly (31 - 50% steepness) = 698.06 km² (52%)
• Mountainous (more than 51% steepness) = 134.24 km² (10%)

Generally, the land in Pacitan can be divided into two categories, calcium in the south, and fertile land in the north. The land consists of lithosal association, red mediterranean lithosal, tuf and volcanic compound, reddish lithosal complex, and grey alluvial, clay sediments containing many potential minerals. The minerals are feldspar

Feldspar

Feldspars are a group of rock-forming tectosilicate minerals which make up as much as 60% of the Earth's crust....

, ball clay

Ball clay

Ball clays are kaolinitic sedimentary clays, that commonly consist of 20-80% kaolinite, 10-25% mica, 6-65% quartz. Localized seams in the same deposit have variations in composition, including the quantity of the major minerals, accessory minerals and carbonaceous materials such as lignite...

, bentonite

Bentonite

Bentonite is an absorbent aluminium phyllosilicate, essentially impure clay consisting mostly of montmorillonite. There are different types of bentonite, each named after the respective dominant element, such as potassium , sodium , calcium , and aluminum . Experts debate a number of nomenclatorial...

, pyrophylite, calcite

Calcite

Calcite is a carbonate mineral and the most stable polymorph of calcium carbonate . The other polymorphs are the minerals aragonite and vaterite. Aragonite will change to calcite at 380-470°C, and vaterite is even less stable.-Properties:...

, gips, phosphate

Phosphate

A phosphate, an inorganic chemical, is a salt of phosphoric acid. In organic chemistry, a phosphate, or organophosphate, is an ester of phosphoric acid. Organic phosphates are important in biochemistry and biogeochemistry or ecology. Inorganic phosphates are mined to obtain phosphorus for use in...

, silical stone, coal

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams. The harder forms, such as anthracite coal, can be regarded as metamorphic rock because of later exposure to elevated temperature and pressure...

, dolomite

Dolomite

Dolomite is a carbonate mineral composed of calcium magnesium carbonate CaMg2. The term is also used to describe the sedimentary carbonate rock dolostone....

, gemstone

Gemstone

A gemstone or gem is a piece of mineral, which, in cut and polished form, is used to make jewelry or other adornments...

, tin

Tin

Tin is a chemical element with the symbol Sn and atomic number 50. It is a main group metal in group 14 of the periodic table. Tin shows chemical similarity to both neighboring group 14 elements, germanium and lead and has two possible oxidation states, +2 and the slightly more stable +4...

, and mangan.

Pacitan Regency consists 130.87 km² of rice fields and 1,211.55 km² of dry land. According to the kind of irrigations, the rice fields can be grouped into: technical irrigation rice field (16.06 km²), half technical irrigation rice field (11.88 km²), simple irrigation rice field (40.63 km²), and rain-dependent rice field (62.3 km²).

Political divisions

Pacitan is divided by 12 subdistricts

Subdistricts of Indonesia

In Indonesia, a kecamatan or district is a subdivision of a regency or of a city . A district is itself divided into kelurahan or administrative villages....

:

• Pacitan
• Kebonagung
• Arjosari
• Tulakan (lorok)
• Ngadirojo
• Punung
• Pringkuku
• Donorojo
• Nawangan
• Tegalombo
• Sudimoro
• Bandar

Notable people

Pacitan is also the birthplace of the former army general and the current and first directly elected President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono

Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono AC , is an Indonesian politician and retired Army general officer who has been President of Indonesia since 2004....

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