Sadang River

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Sadang River
Sungai Sadang, Salo Sadang, Salo Sa’dang, Salu Saqdan
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Sadang river
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Location of river mouth
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Sadang River (Indonesia)
Location
Country Indonesia
State South Sulawesi
Physical characteristics
Length150 km (93 mi)
Basin size6,466 km2 (2,497 sq mi)
Discharge 
  locationNear mouth
  average265 m3/s (9,400 cu ft/s)

The Sadang is a river of Sulawesi in West Sulawesi province, Indonesia. [1] It is one of the major rivers which flow into the Strait of Macassar. [2]

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Geography

The river flows in the southwest area of Sulawesi with 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 26 °C, and the coldest is June, at 22 °C. [4] The average annual rainfall is 2500 mm. The wettest month is May, with an average of 387 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 68 mm rainfall. [5]

See also

References

  1. Salo Sadang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  2. Encyclopædia Britannica
  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 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 . Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. "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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