page_title: Gunung Padang Megalithic Site
hierarchical_section_title: Gunung Padang Megalithic Site
caption_attribution_description: English: Taken from Gunung Padang Megalith Site, Cianjur, West Java, Indonesia
context_page_description: Gunung Padang, a megalithic site at Karyamukti, Campaka village, is located 6 kilometres south of Lampegan railway station and 30 kilometres southwest of Cianjur regency in West Java Province of Indonesia. It has been claimed as the largest megalithic site in Southeastern Asia. Controversial carbon dating results from the site suggest it was built in four different eras, first being claimed as far back as 20,000 BCE. Archaeologist Harry Truman Simanjuntak suggests that the site may have been built much more recently, perhaps sometime between the 2nd and 6th centuries CE. 29 hectares site has been designated as the "National Site Area" by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
  It is located 160 kilometres southeast of Jakarta, 50 kilometres south of Mount Gede Pangrango National Park, 23 kilometres southeast of Sukabumi, and 95 kilometres southwest of popular hill station resort town of Bandung. The site can be accessed by two routes: from Sukabumi via Indonesian National Route 3 and right turn on to Jalan Cimunkang/Gandaoli, from Cianjur via NR3 and then left turn on to Jalan Raya Sukabumi.
context_section_description: Gunung Padang, a megalithic site at Karyamukti, Campaka (id) village, is located 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) south of Lampegan railway station and 30 kilometres (19 mi) southwest of Cianjur regency in West Java Province of Indonesia. It has been claimed as the largest megalithic site in Southeastern Asia. Controversial carbon dating results from the site suggest it was built in four different eras, first being claimed as far back as 20,000 BCE. Archaeologist Harry Truman Simanjuntak suggests that the site may have been built much more recently, perhaps sometime between the 2nd and 6th centuries CE. 29 hectares (72 acres) site has been designated as the "National Site Area" by the Ministry of Education and Culture.
  It is located 160 kilometres (99 mi) southeast of Jakarta (Soekarno–Hatta International Airport), 50 kilometres (31 mi) south of Mount Gede Pangrango National Park, 23 kilometres (14 mi) southeast of Sukabumi, and 95 kilometres (59 mi) southwest of popular hill station resort town of Bandung (Husein Sastranegara International Airport). The site can be accessed by two routes: from Sukabumi via Indonesian National Route 3 (NR3) and right turn on to Jalan Cimunkang/Gandaoli, from Cianjur via NR3 and then left turn on to Jalan Raya Sukabumi.
  Base of the mountain has a ticket office, restaurant, public bath with water from the natural springs, top of mountain has a wood and steel tower to take the pictures from top. "Empang Gunung Padang" dam lies on slope 1 km south of the site and Sundaland tourist village lies 1 km east of the site.
  Site, as part of Nusantara (Maritime Southeast Asia), has also been compared to the larger Nan Madol site for similar valconic columns, to Machu Picchu in Peru for having similar terraces on mountain slope, and to Borobudur for this site being larger in size than Borobudur. It is also counted among the 5 known terraced monolithic pyramids in Indonesia, all of which are Hindu sites built during Hindu-Buddhist era, other being Candi Kethek, Lebak Cibedug Temple, Pugung Raharjo and Candi Sukuh.
caption: Top of Gunung Padang site
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