WELCOME TO NORTH SULAWESI GENERAL INFORMATION OF PROVINCE The Province of North Sulawesi is one of the most prosperous and spectacularly scenic areas of Indonesia. Much of the beauty and fertility of region from its towering volcanoes. Many area extinct or dormant, but Mt. Lokon near Tomohon last eruption in 1986. earth Soputan in central Minahasa the last eruption at 1989. earth tremos are not at all uncommon here in North Sulawesi. Volcanoes are only one aspect of a geologically active complex that includes fumarotes and hot spring in the Minahasa district. Studies have beed carried out to ascertain the feasibility of generating electricity from geothermal energy here. More importantly, the volcanoes are responsible for the exceptionally fertile soils that are the province’s major economic asset. MINAHASA as the hinterland of Manado is the most heavily populate and highly developed district. Only 20 percent of its land remains under forest cover, and the population density has soared to over 300 persons per square kilometers less than half than Java population, but still very high. The Minahasa area is extremely mountainous (Mt. Klabat, the highest peak, stands at 1995 meters) but have a narrow coastal fringe where coconuts thrive, and an interior plateau around lake of Tondano (altitude 600 meter, surface area 46 sq meters), where irrigated rice fields provide abundant harvests. The upland hills are covered in clove trees, while in the cool highland areas to the south, near the border with Bolaang Mongondow vegetables such as potatoes, carrots and cabbages are grown. Minahasans and other peoples of the province have a different sort of original story; the myth of Toar and Lumimuut. The primal ancestors Lumimuut was born out of foam from a coral rock thrown up from the sea and impregnated by the wind. She her son Toar set out in different directions to search for mates. Years later they met but did not recognize one other and so married, giving birth to many children/ Its said that Lumimuut gathered her off spring at a secret stone called “ Watu Pinabetengan” and allocated different parts of the real to them. This stone, with its undeschiperred pictographic carving is still in situ near the town of Langowan.