Arut River Explained
| Arut River |
| Name Other: | Sungai Arut, Soengai Aroet |
| Pushpin Map: | Indonesia Kalimantan#Indonesia |
| Pushpin Map Size: | 285 |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of river mouth |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
Arut River is a river in the province of Kalimantan Tengah, island of Borneo, Indonesia, about 700 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[1] It is a tributary of the Lamandau River.[2] The river flows through the north side of Pangkalan Bun town.
Geography
The river flows in the southern area of Kalimantan with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is July, at 22 °C.[4] The average annual rainfall is 2778 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 570 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 66 mm of rainfall.[5]
See also
References
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Notes and References
- http://www.geonames.org/1651168/sungai%20arut.html Sungai Arut
- Book: Our vanishing relative: the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century. H. D. Rijksen. E. Meijaard. Springer. 1999. 978-0-7923-5754-4. 209–210.
- Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. 2007. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11. 1633–1644 . . 30 January 2016. 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. M C. B L. T A. Peel. Finlayson. McMahon. 5. free.
- Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 30 January 2016. NASA. 7 January 2019. 10 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200510015442/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php. dead.
- Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 30 January 2016. NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 7 January 2019. 11 May 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200511075534/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M. dead.
