Pembuang River

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]

Pembuang River
Soengai Saroejan, Soengai Pemboeang, Soengai Seroejan
Pembuang River mouth
Native nameSungai Pembuang
Location
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceCentral Kalimantan
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBikit Tikung, Schwaner Mountain Range
Mouth 
 • location
Java Sea
Pembuang
Main mouth to Java Sea
Pembuang River in Kalimantan

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
  1. Sungai Pembuang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2012-01-17; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  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.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  3. Hikajat Bandjar: A study in Malay historiography. Bibliotheca Indonesica, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands), Martinus Nijhoff. 1968.
  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. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
  5. "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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