Pembuang River

Pembuang River
Pembuang River mouth
Country Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Main source Bikit Tikung, Schwaner Mountain Range
River mouth Java Sea
Pembuang
Main mouth to Java Sea
Pembuang River in Kalimantan

Pembuang River is a river of Borneo, Indonesia. The river has its source near Bikit Tikung (1175 metres) in the Schwaner Mountain Range.[1] 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.[1] Pembuang means "place of rejection".[2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 H. D. Rijksen, E. Meijaard (1999). Our vanishing relative: the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century. Springer. pp. 212–3. ISBN 0-7923-5754-X.
  2. Hikajat Bandjar: A study in Malay historiography. Bibliotheca Indonesica, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands), Martinus Nijhoff. 1968.


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