Mendawai_River

Mendawai River

Mendawai River

River in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Mendawai River or Katingan River is a river of Borneo, it is located in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. With a total length of 616 km (383 mi).[4][5] The longhouses of the Pendahara are located along the river in its upper course. The river has its source in the Schwaner Mountain Range.[6]

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Geography

The river flows in the southeast area of Borneo with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[7] The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is December, at 20 °C.[8] The average annual rainfall is 2991 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 476 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 75 mm rainfall.[9]

See also

References

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    Hukum Online. "Keputusan Menteri Kehutanan No. SK.511/MENHUT-V/2011" (in Indonesian).
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    Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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    Sungai Mendawai - Geonames.org.
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    "Central Kalimantan". Goarchi. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
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    Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
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    "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
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    "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.
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