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Lake Lengkong, also called Situ Lengkong or Situ Lengkong Panjalu, (Sundane Script:, Situ Léngkong Panjalu) is a lake (situ in Sundanese) located in Panjalu Sub-District, Ciamis, West Java.

Situ Lengkong is designated as a nature reserve (Natuurmonumenten) based on Decree Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (Besluit van den Gouverneur-Generaal van Nederlandsch Indie) Number 6 on 21 February 1919.

History
That said, it was in the Situ Lengkong area that was the center of government of the Panjalu Ciamis Kingdom [ id ]. With these historical discoveries, Panjalu has developed as a tourist city, both natural tourism, cultural tourism, and pilgrimage tourism. Seeing the importance of the Panjalu area as the forerunner of the Sunda Kawali Kingdom, the West Java Provincial Government on 17 March 2004 confirmed Panjalu as a tourist village. Situ Lengkong is located about 35 km north of Ciamis City or 15 km west of Kawali City and is bordered to the north by the Talaga area, Majalengka Regency and Kuningan Regency which is a community area that was formerly known as the center of the Panjalu kingdom. Archaeological data findings, socio-cultural values, and other well-being traces, which are still preserved, provide clues about the city's past. As an ancient royal city known as the Kingdom of Soko Galuh Panjalu, the capital of the kingdom was built in an area of ​​a lake (situ) covering an area of ​​70 hectares which is now called Situ Lengkong which is located along the northern edge of the city of Panjalu. Now there are three Nusa (small islands). At that location each of them was used as a building for the Royal Palace, Kepatihan and royal staff and as a recreation park. The founder of the royal capital was a charismatic ancestral Panjalu figure named Borosngora, the first Islamic King of Panjalu.

Tourists who come to Panjalu in general are pilgrims visiting the figures of King Panjalu, especially the funeral of Prabu Harian Kancana in Nusa Situ Lengkong (Situ Royal Palace) and the lake itself which has a religious nuance, besides that they also visit the Bumi Alit Museum. Where are historical relics such as Menhirs, Purgatory Stones, Coronation Stones, manuscripts and tool objects belonging to the past Kings and Regents of Panjalu, especially tools called Panjalu heirlooms in the form of Swords, Cis and Genta (small bell) left by King Sanghyang Borosngora