Jelai-Bila River Explained

Jelai-Bila River
Name Other:	Sungai Jelai, Sungai Jelai-Bila, Sungai Djelai, Jelai
Pushpin Map:	Indonesia Kalimantan#Indonesia
Pushpin Map Size:	285
Pushpin Map Caption:	Location of river mouth
Source1 Location:	Kalimantan
Subdivision Type1:	Country

The Jelai-Bila River is a river of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.^[1] Much of the land between the Lamandau River and the Jelai-Bila River is developed by agriculture.^[2]

Geography

The river flows in the central south of Borneo with a predominantly tropical monsoon climate (designated as Am in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).^[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is September when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 20 °C.^[4] The average annual rainfall is 2760 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 531 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 45 mm of rainfall.^[5]

See also

• List of drainage basins of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Kalimantan

References

-2.9876°N 110.7318°W

Notes and References

1. http://www.geonames.org/1642624/sungai%20jelai.html Sungai Jelai
2. Book: Our vanishing relative: the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century. H. D. Rijksen . E. Meijaard . Springer. 1999. 0-7923-5754-X. 209–210.
3. 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. 2007HESS...11.1633P. free.
4. Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 30 January 2016. NASA. 8 February 2019. 6 August 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20130806035941/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php.
5. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 30 January 2016. NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 8 February 2019. 19 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190419091014/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014.