Kalaena River

Kalaena River
Sungai Kalaena, Salo Kalaena, Koro Kaleana
Location of river mouth
Kalaena River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationSouth Sulawesi
Length85 km (53 mi)
Basin size1,476.5 km2 (570.1 sq mi)[1]
Discharge 
 • locationNear mouth
 • average104 m3/s (3,700 cu ft/s)[1]

Kalaena River is a river in South Sulawesi, Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[2][3]

Geography

The river flows in the center of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] 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 March, at 22 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 4176 mm. The wettest month is April, with an average of 660 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 117 mm rainfall.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Java-Timor-Sulawesi".
  2. ^ Salo Kalaena at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  3. ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  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. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  6. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.

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