Pembuang River
| Pembuang River Soengai Saroejan, Soengai Pemboeang, Soengai Seroejan | |
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 Pembuang River mouth | |
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| Native name | Sungai Pembuang Error {{native name checker}}: parameter value is malformed (help) |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Province | Central Kalimantan |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Bikit Tikung, Schwaner Mountain Range |
| Mouth | |
• location | Java Sea |
Pembuang River is a river of Borneo, Indonesia.[1] The river has its source near Bikit Tikung (1175 metres) in the Schwaner Mountain Range.[2] The eastern side of the river contains dense forest down to Sembulu (Belajau) lakes and is said to be a major habitat of the orangutan.[2] Pembuang means "place of rejection".[3]
Geography
The river flows in the middle to the south of Borneo island with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is November, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is February, at 23 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 3118 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 491 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 67 mm rainfall.[6]
See also
References
- ^ Sungai Pembuang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2012-01-17; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- ^ a b Our vanishing relative: the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century. Springer. 1999. pp. 212–3. ISBN 0-7923-5754-X.
{{cite book}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter|authors=(help) - ^ Hikajat Bandjar: A study in Malay historiography. Bibliotheca Indonesica, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands), Martinus Nijhoff. 1968.
- ^ Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
{{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter:|1=(help) - ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.