Pembuang River

Pembuang River
Sungai Seruyan, Soengai Saroejan, Soengai Pemboeang, Soengai Seroejan
Pembuang River mouth
Pembuang River is located in Indonesia
Pembuang River
Native nameSungai Pembuang (Indonesian)
Location
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceCentral Kalimantan
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBikit Tikung, Schwaner Mountain Range
Mouth 
 • location
Java Sea
 • coordinates
3°22′40.87″S 112°32′25.86″E / 3.3780194°S 112.5405167°E / -3.3780194; 112.5405167
Length350 km (220 mi)
Basin size12,911 km2 (4,985 sq mi)[1]
Discharge 
 • locationJava Sea (near mouth)
 • average1,216 m3/s (42,900 cu ft/s)
Discharge 
 • locationPembuang (Basin size: 7,554 km2 (2,917 sq mi)[2]
 • average723 m3/s (25,500 cu ft/s)[3]
Kalimantan is located in Kalimantan
Pembuang
Pembuang
Main mouth to Java Sea
Main mouth to Java Sea
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Pembuang River in Kalimantan

Pembuang River or Seruyan River is a river of Borneo, Indonesia.[4] The river has its source near Bikit Tikung (1,175 metres) in the Schwaner Mountain Range.[5] 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.[5] Pembuang means "place of rejection".[6]

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).[7] 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.[8] The average annual rainfall is 3118 (2971-3480) mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 491 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 67 mm rainfall.[9]

Hydrology

The Seruyan River (previously named Seroejan) is a river that crosses and flows in the Seruyan Regency, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia. The river flows from north to south and empties into the Java Sea has a length of 350 Km and a navigable 300 Km through several cities, an average depth of 6 m and an average width of 300 m.

A number of its tributaries:

• Sembuluh Lake River

• Salau River

• Pukun River

• Kalua River

• Lanan River

• Bai River

See also

References

  1. ^ Daniel, Stapper (2011). "Artisanal Gold Mining, Mercury and Sediment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia" (PDF).
  2. ^ Daniel, Stapper (2011). "Artisanal Gold Mining, Mercury and Sediment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia" (PDF).
  3. ^ Daniel, Stapper (2011). "Artisanal Gold Mining, Mercury and Sediment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia" (PDF).
  4. ^ Sungai Pembuang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2012-01-17; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  5. ^ a b Rijksen, H. D.; Meijaard, E. (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.
  6. ^ Hikajat Bandjar: A study in Malay historiography. Bibliotheca Indonesica, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands), Martinus Nijhoff. 1968.
  7. ^ 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 (5): 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
  8. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  9. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

3°25′56″S 112°34′13″E / 3.43212°S 112.5703°E / -3.43212; 112.5703