Tuntang River

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Tuntang River
Sungai Tuntang, Kali Tuntang
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Waterfall by the Tuntang river near Salatiga (1940)
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Location of river mouth
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Tuntang River (Indonesia)
Location
Country Indonesia
Province Central Java
Physical characteristics
Source Lake Rawa Pening
  coordinates 7°15′53″S110°26′58″E / 7.26485°S 110.44949°E / -7.26485; 110.44949
Mouth Java Sea
  coordinates
6°50′07″S110°31′27″E / 6.8352°S 110.5241°E / -6.8352; 110.5241

The Tuntang (Indonesian : Kali Tuntang) is a major river of northern Central Java, Indonesia, about 400 km east of the capital Jakarta. [1] It connects Lake Rawa Pening to the Java Sea, east of Semarang. [2] There is a hydroelectric power station on the river near the lake.

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Geography

The river flows in the central 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 21 °C. The warmest month is September when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is June, at 20 °C. [4] The average annual rainfall is 3140 mm. The wettest month is January, with an average of 560 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 14 mm of rainfall. [5]

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References

  1. Kali Tuntang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  2. Goltenboth, Friedhelm; Timotius, Kris H.; Milan, Paciencia P.; Margraf, Josef (7 December 2006). Ecology of Insular Southeast Asia: The Indonesian Archipelago. Elsevier. p. 140. ISBN   978-0-08-046797-9 . Retrieved 14 January 2013.
  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. 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.