Yogyakarta City of Indonesia

Yogyakarta (also Jogja, Jogjakarta) is a city and capital of Yogyakarta Special Region on Java in Indonesia. It is renowned as a centre of classical Javanese fine art and culture such as batik, ballet, drama, music, poetry, and puppet shows. Yogyakarta was the Indonesian capital during the Indonesian National Revolution from 1945 to 1949. One of the districts in Yogyakarta, Kotagede, was the capital of Mataram Sultanate between 1575 and 1640. The city is named after the Indian city of Ayodhya from the Ramayana epic. Yogya means 'suitable, fit, proper', and karta, 'prosperous, flourishing' (i.e., 'a city that is fit to prosper').

DIY situated in the south-central part of the island of Java, is geographically located at 7o3'-8o12 'south latitude and 110o00'-110o50' east longitude. Based on the landscape, DIY regions can be grouped into four physiographic units, namely physiographic units Merapi Volcano, Southern Mountains physiographic units or Mountains Thousand Mountains physiographic units Kulonprogo and Lowlands physiographic units.

Merapi Volcano physiographic units, ranging from the volcanic cones to fluvial plains volcanoes including volcanic landscape, covering Sleman, Yogyakarta and some Bantul. Areas and slopes cone volcano is a protected forest area as a water catchment area of ​​the subordinate. Landscape unit is located in the northern part of Sleman. Mount Merapi, which is an active volcano with special characteristics, has appeal as an object of research, education, and tourism.

Karts dominate the way the structure of the earth in the southern Gunungkidul

South Mountain Unit or the Thousand Mountains, located in the Gunungkidul, an area of ​​limestone hills (limestone) and karst landscapes are barren and lack of surface water, with the center of a basin Wonosari (Wonosari Basin) which has undergone tectonic removal forming to Plato Wonosari (Wonosari plateau). This unit is a landscape results solusional process (dissolution), with limestone parent material and has the characteristics of a shallow layer of soil and vegetation cover is very sparse.

Kulonprogo Mountains Unit, located in the northern part Kulonprogo, a structural landscape denudasional with hilly topography, steep slope and soil water potential is small.

Unit Lowlands, a landscape fluvial (river deposition process results) are dominated by alluvial plains, stretching across the southern part of Yogyakarta, ranging from Kulonprogo to Bantul bordering the Thousand Mountains. This unit is a fertile area. Included in this unit is a marine landscape and eolin are not utilized, an area that stretches from coast to Bantul Kulonprogo. Special landscape marin and eolin in Parangtritis Bantul, which is famous for its sand dunes, is a natural laboratory for the study of coastal landscapes.

Plain Parangtritis

The physiographic conditions affected the population distribution, the availability of infrastructure and facilities area, and socio-economic activities of the population, as well as the progress of unequal development among regions. Areas that are relatively flat, such as fluvial plains region covering Sleman, Yogyakarta and Bantul (particularly in the Urban Agglomeration of Yogyakarta) is an area with a high population density and have a social and economic activities with high intensity, so it is a more developed regions and growing.

Two watersheds (DAS) is quite large in the province is in the western basin and watershed Progo Opak-Oya in the east. The rivers are well known in the province include the River Attack, Progo, Bedog River, River Winongo, Boyong River-Code, Gajah Wong River, Opak River, and river Oya.