Melolo River

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Melolo River
Sungai Melolo, Luku Melolu, Koeala Melolo, Rivier Melolo
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Melolo River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  location Sumba
Mouth Sawu Sea

The Melolo River is a river of Sumba, Indonesia. [1] [2] [3]

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Geography

The river flows along the northern area of Sumba with predominantly tropical savanna climate (designated as As in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [4] The annual average temperature in the area is 27 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 32 °C, and the coldest is January, at 24 °C. [5] The average annual rainfall is 966 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 206 mm rainfall, and the driest is August, with 4 mm rainfall. [6]

Luku Melolo
Climate chart (explanation)
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Average max. and min. temperatures in °C
Precipitation totals in mm
Source: [5]
Imperial conversion
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Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
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See also

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References

  1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. Luku Melolo at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 17 January 2012; Database dump downloaded 27 November 2015
  3. "Viewfinder Panoramas Digital elevation Model". 21 June 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. 1 2 "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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