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Simpang-kiri River

Coordinates: 0°09′57″N 103°15′20″E / 0.1658°N 103.2555°E / 0.1658; 103.2555
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Simpang-kiri River
Sungai Simpangkiri, Sungai Simpang Kiri
Simpang-kiri River is located in Sumatra
Simpang-kiri River
Location of river mouth
Simpang-kiri River is located in Indonesia
Simpang-kiri River
Simpang-kiri River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceRiau
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationSumatra
MouthKateman River[1]
 • location
Riau

Simpang-kiri River (Indonesian: Sungai Simpangkiri, means: Left Junction River) is a river in Riau province, central-eastern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 800 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.[2][3]

Geography

The river flows in the central area of Sumatra 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 March, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 23 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 2667 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 402 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 104 mm rainfall.[6]

Simpang-kiri River
Climate chart (explanation)
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See also

References

  1. ^ OpenStreetMap. Accessed 19 Jan 2019.
  2. ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  3. ^ Sungai Simpangkiri at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  4. ^ 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: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  5. ^ a b "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  6. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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