Wonorejo Dam, The Biggest Dam In South East Asia
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Wonorejo dam is a dam in the village Wonorejo, Pagerwojo district, Tulungagung regency, East Java Province, Indonesia. It is about 12 km from the city center. With about 122 million cubic meters of capacity, Wonorejo dam become one of Indonesia's largest reservoir, including Southeast Asia.
Wonorejo dam is declared in 2001 by the Indonesian president, Megawati Sukarnoputri, built after nearly 9 years since 1992. Wonorejo dam has the function of the power of electricity and the source of drinking water in the province of East Java. This dam is also operated to prevent floods in Tulungagung, along with Neyama dam in the district of Besuki.
Henceforth, Wonorejo dam is also functioned as an object of tourism in Tulungagung, next to Popoh Beach. Some facilities are built around Wonorejo Dam, one of them is Swah Loh-Resort.
In addition to how and how PLTA irrigation, dam Wonorejo tourism is also introduced as an object that provides convenient and recreational facilities. In his opinion, Wonorejo dam is designed to supply drinking water in Tulungagung area as well as installation of irrigation in the area Pagerwojo.
As an object of tourism in Tulungagung, Wonorejo dam is equipped with canoeing, camping, lines helicopter, fishing and standart of the circuits of motocross and off road event.
With about 15 km from the city center, Wonorejo dam is easily accessible. Besides that, visitors will enjoy their trip to Wonorejo Dam, because it has beautiful scenery and is filled with the appeal and the villa of high quality. Its nature is the hill again with the valley air fresh and clean, very comfortable and natural area in the tropics. Wonorejo dam is using the concept of casting into a hill and has artistic value to visitors. This object is tourism also has a clean environment that makes visitors will be maintained for a long time.
Many events are held here, both in the region and nationally. The events are annual, national paper kite competition, motocross and 4WD Offroad competition, bow and reduce competition, etc.
The other bombing mission Wonorejo is trying to develop mountain tourism in Tulungagung concept, so the concept of tourism not only in coastal or agricultural business sector, but also the importance of public services can be exposed to tourism. The day, Tulungagung is not only known as the city of marble, but also a city that has many places of recreation.
