Bledug Kuwu is a crater of mud (mud volcano) located in the village of Kuwu, Kradenan, Grobogan, Central Java Province.
This place can be taken approximately 28 km to the east of the city Purwodadi.Bledug Kuwu is one tourism destination in this region, in addition to the source of eternal fire Mrapen, and Reservoir Kedungombo.Bledug interesting object of this is the eruption of mud containing salt and ongoing periodic, between 2 and 3 minutes.GEOLOGY.
Geologically, Kuwu mud craters, as well as other mud craters, is the activity of the gas discharge in the core of the earth.The gas is methane.Kuwu is the only one located in Central Java.Burst mud happens usually brought with it a solution of mineral rich mud from the bottom to the top.Sidoarjo mud flood also caused by mud craters, although for the latter the higher level of activity.SALT CONTENT.
Mud from the crater's water contains salt, by the local people used to be used as material for traditional borax salt.The trick is to hold water from Bledug it into a bamboo rod was split into two and then dried.
THE LEGEND OF BLEDUG-KUWU
Occording to the story hereditary circulating among the local people, Bledug Kuwu occurs because of the hole that connects the place with the South Sea (Indian Ocean).It is said that the hole is Joko Daze way home from the South Sea to the kingdom MEDANG KAMULAN after defeating the King of Gods Cengkar which has been turned into a white alligator in the South Seas.Joko Daze supposedly can make the hole because he can be transformed into a dragon which is the condition that he recognized as his son Raden Aji Saka.