Porong River

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Porong River
Kali Porong, Sungai Porong, Kali Torong
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Location of river mouth
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Porong River (Indonesia)
Location
Country Indonesia
Province East Java
Physical characteristics
Source Brantas River
  location Mojokerto
Mouth  
  location
Madura Strait
  elevation
0 m (0 ft)
Length13.5 km (8.4 mi)
Basin size480 km2 (190 sq mi)

The Porong River is a river flowing through Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, about 700 km east of the capital Jakarta. [1] [2] It is one of the main distributaries of the Brantas River that discharges into the Bali Sea, close to the Madura Strait, and is the main outlet for the Lusi mudflow.

Contents

Geography

The river flows in the eastern area of Java with a predominantly tropical monsoon climate (designated as Am in the Köppen–Geiger climate classification). [3] The annual average temperature in the area is 26 °C. The warmest month is October when the average temperature is around 28 °C, and the coldest is February, at 22 °C o average. [4] The average annual rainfall is 2473 mm. The wettest month is January, with an average of 426 mm of rainfall, and the driest is August, with an average rainfall of 20 mm . [5]

Porong River
Climate chart (explanation)
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See also

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References

  1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. Kali Porong at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  3. 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: 1633–1644. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. 1 2 "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  5. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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