Pembuang River Sungai Seruyan, Soengai Saroejan, Soengai Pemboeang, Soengai Seroejan | |
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Native name | Sungai Pembuang (Indonesian) |
Location | |
Country | Indonesia |
Province | Central Kalimantan |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Bikit Tikung, Schwaner Mountain Range |
Mouth | |
• location | Java Sea |
• coordinates | 3°22′40.87″S112°32′25.86″E / 3.3780194°S 112.5405167°E |
Length | 350 km (220 mi) |
Basin size | 12,911 km2 (4,985 sq mi) [1] |
Discharge | |
• location | Java Sea (near mouth) |
• average | 1,216 m3/s (42,900 cu ft/s) |
Discharge | |
• location | Pembuang (Basin size: 7,554 km2 (2,917 sq mi) [2] |
• average | 723 m3/s (25,500 cu ft/s) [3] |
Pembuang River or Seruyan River is a river of Borneo, Indonesia. [4] The river has its source near Bikit Tikung (1,175 metres) in the Schwaner Mountain Range. [5] The eastern side of the river contains dense forest down to Sembulu (Belajau) lakes and is said to be a major habitat of the orangutan. [5] Pembuang means "place of rejection". [6]
The river flows in the middle to the south of Borneo island with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [7] The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is November, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is February, at 23 °C. [8] The average annual rainfall is 3118 (2971-3480) mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 491 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 67 mm rainfall. [9]
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A number of its tributaries:
• Sembuluh Lake River
• Salau River
• Pukun River
• Kalua River
• Lanan River
• Bai River
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