Sembakung River

Sembakung River
Sungai Sembakung, Sungai Sembakun, Simbakung, Soengai Sembakoeng
River mouth location
Sembakung River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryMalaysian and Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationSabah, North Kalimantan
Length322 km (200 mi)[1]
Basin size9,518.08 km2 (3,674.95 sq mi)[1]
Discharge 
 • locationNear mouth
 • average(2008–2019)627.6 m3/s (22,160 cu ft/s)[1]
 • minimum62.11 m3/s (2,193 cu ft/s)[1]
 • maximum904.62 m3/s (31,946 cu ft/s)[1]
Basin features
ProgressionSulawesi Sea
River systemSembakung River

The Sembakung River is a river in Borneo that flows from Sabah, Malaysia to North Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[2][3]

Geography

The 322 kilometers long river flows in the northeastern area 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 August, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 22 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 4020 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 393 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 251 mm rainfall.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Dokumen File - Direktorat Jenderal Sumber Daya Air".
  2. ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  3. ^ Sungai Sembakung at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 17 January 2012; Database dump downloaded 27 November 2015
  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 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. 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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