Kalaena River is a river in South Sulawesi, Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[2][3]
| Kalaena River Sungai Kalaena, Salo Kalaena, Koro Kaleana | |
|---|---|
  Location of river mouth  Kalaena River (Indonesia) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | South Sulawesi |
| Length | 85 km (53 mi) |
| Basin size | 1,476.5 km2 (570.1 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | 104 m3/s (3,700 cu ft/s)[1] |
Geography
editThe river flows in the center of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is March, at 22 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 4176 mm. The wettest month is April, with an average of 660 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 117 mm rainfall.[6]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Java-Timor-Sulawesi".
- ^ Salo Kalaena at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
- ^ 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: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.