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At first Pananjung Pangandaran Village was opened and occupied by the fishermen of the tribe of Sunda. Cause migrants prefer Pangandaran area to the residence because of the small waves that make it easy to find fish. Because in this Pangandaran Beach there is a land that juts into the sea which is now a nature reserve or protected forest, this promontory which inhibit or prevent a huge wave to get to the beach. This is where the fishermen to make a place to store boats in Sundanese called andar after a while many flock to this place and settled to become a village called Pangandaran. Pangandaran derived from two words food and consciousness. which means that food is food and consciousness are immigrants. So Pangandaran means a food source arrivals.

Then the elders of the village name Pananjung earlier, because according to the elders of the area earlier in addition there is a headland in many areas even this once-sacred are sacred in some places. Pananjung meaning in language-nanjungna Pangnanjung Sundanese (most fertile or most affluent)

At first Pananjung is one of the central kingdom, contemporaneous with Galuh Pangauban kingdom centered in Putrapinggan around the XIV century AD after the advent of the kingdom Pakuan Pajajaran in Bogor. The name of the king is King Anggalarang one version says that he was descendant of King Haur Yellow, the first king of the kingdom Galuh Pagauban, but unfortunately it was destroyed Pananjung kingdom was attacked by the Bajo (Pirate) because the kingdom is not willing to sell hail the earth to them, because at that situation people are in a state of famine (crop failure).

In 1922 the Dutch colonial era by Y. Everen (President Priangan) Pananjung be a new park, at the time of releasing a bull male, three female cows and some deer.

Because it has a diversity of wildlife and species - rare plant species, their habitats so that continuity can be maintained then in 1934 made Pananjung nature and wildlife sanctuary with an area of ​​530 Ha. In 1961 after the discovery of Raflesia lotus flower turns into the nature reserve status.

With the rise of public relations will be a place of recreation then in 1978 most of the region covering 37, 70 Ha Park used. In 1990 the region was confirmed also in the surrounding waters as a marine nature reserve (470.0 hectares) so that the broad nature conservation area entirely to 1000.0 ha. Subsequent developments, according to Minister of Forestry Decree No. 104? Kpts-II? 1993 TWA travel concession Pananjung Pangandaran transferred from the Directorate General of Forest Protection and Nature Conservation to the supervision Perhutanioffice Perhutanioffice Unit III West Java, Unity Pemangkuan Ciamis Forest, the Forest Kemangkuan Pangandaran.