Seruyan River

Pembuang River Sungai Seruyan, Soengai Saroejan, Soengai Pemboeang, Soengai Seroejan
Pembuang River mouth
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 / -3.3780194; 112.5405167
Length	350 km (220 mi)
Basin size	12,911 km2 (4,985 mi2) [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) [1]
• average	723 m3/s (25,500 cu ft/s) [1]

Pembuang

Main mouth to Java Sea

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Pembuang River in Kalimantan

Pembuang River or Seruyan River is a river of Borneo, Indonesia. ^[2] The river has its source near Bikit Tikung (1,175 metres) in the Schwaner Mountain Range. ^[3] 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. ^[3] Pembuang means "place of rejection". ^[4]

Geography

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). ^[5] 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. ^[6] 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. ^[7]

Hydrology

The Seruyan River (previously named Seroejan) is a river that crosses and flows in the Seruyan Regency, Central Kalimantan province, Indonesia. The river flows from north to south and empties into the Java Sea has a length of 350 Km and a navigable 300 Km through several cities, an average depth of 6 m and an average width of 300 m.

A number of its tributaries:

• Sembuluh Lake River

• Salau River

• Pukun River

• Kalua River

• Lanan River

• Bai River

See also

• List of drainage basins of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Kalimantan

References

1. Stapper, Daniel (2011). "Artisanal Gold Mining, Mercury and Sediment in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia" (PDF).
2. Sungai Pembuang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2012-01-17; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
3. Rijksen, H. D.; Meijaard, E. (1999). Our vanishing relative: the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century. Springer. pp. 212–3. ISBN   0-7923-5754-X.
4. Hikajat Bandjar: A study in Malay historiography. Bibliotheca Indonesica, Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands), Martinus Nijhoff. 1968.
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. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 .
6. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 10 May 2020. Retrieved 27 November 2018.
7. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 27 November 2018.

3°25′56″S112°34′13″E / 3.43212°S 112.5703°E / -3.43212; 112.5703