Ci Banten Explained

Ci Banten
Mouth Coordinates:-6.0277°N 106.1749°W
River System:Cibanten basin
Country:Indonesia
Source1:Gunung Karang
Source1 Coordinates:-6.2686°N 106.0491°W
Custom Data:BPDAS Citarum-Ciliwung
Custom Label:Basin management authority
Bridges:Karang Serang bridge
Mouth:Banten Bay, Java Sea
State Type:Provinsi
State:Banten
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Cities:Serang
Name Other:Cipeteh

The Ci Banten, or Ci Peteh, is a river in Banten province on the island of Java, Indonesia.

The rivers in Banten, the westernmost province of Java, run roughly parallel to each other. The main rivers are the Peteh, called the Banten on the lower reaches near the city of Kota Banten; the Ujung, which enters the sea at Pontang; the Durian, which enters the sea at Tanara; the Manceuri; and the Sadane, which rises in the mountainous region of Priyangan and in 1682 formed the border between the Dutch East India Company (VOC) territory and Batavia (modern Jakarta).

Geography

The river flows in the southwest area of Java with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen–Geiger climate classification).[1] The annual average temperature in the area is 25 °C. The warmest month is October in which the average temperature is around 28 °C, and the coldest is January, at 24 °C.[2] The average annual rainfall is 3471 mm. The wettest month is February with an average of 429 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 116 mm of rainfall.[3]

See also

Notes and References

  1. 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. free.
  2. Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 30 January 2016. NASA. 30 May 2018. 26 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200426054225/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php. dead.
  3. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 30 January 2016. NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 May 2018. 19 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190419091014/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014. dead.