Sekayam River

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Sekayam River
Sungai Sekayam, Sungai Sekajam, Soengai Sekajan
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Sekayam River (Indonesia)
Location
Country Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  location Borneo
Mouth Kapuas River
  location
Sanggau
Basin features
River system Kapuas basin (DAS320470) [1]

Sekayam River is a river of Borneo, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia. [2] It is a tributary of the Kapuas River. [3] The Public Forest System Utility Program (Program Pemberdayaan Sistem Hutan Kerakyatan; PPSHK) has a scheme on the river aimed at reducing the level of mercury content absorbed by humans. [4]

Contents

Hydrology

The river flows through the dense rainforest of Borneo. The Entabai River enters the Sekayam River.

Geography

The river flows in the western area of Borneo island with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [5] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is August when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is November, at 20 °C. [6] The average annual rainfall is 3680 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 466 mm of rainfall, and the driest is June, with 181 mm of rainfall. [7]

Use

During the 1880s the river was exploited for its Cinnabar and antimony in its far upper course. [8]

See also

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References

  1. Hukum Online. "Keputusan Menteri Kehutanan No. SK.511/MENHUT-V/2011" (in Indonesian).
  2. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  3. Sungai Sekayam at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2012-01-17; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  4. "Increasing Public and Community Awareness on Health and Environment Impacted by Mercury in Sekayam Watershed, West Kalimantan (INDO/04/53)". UNDP. Retrieved October 30, 2010.
  5. 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 .
  6. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  7. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.
  8. Tagliacozzo, Eric (2007). Secret trades, porous borders: smuggling and states along a Southeast Asian frontier, 1865-1915. NUS Press. p. 36. ISBN   978-9971-69-385-5.

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