Sampara River
| Sampara River Sungai Sampara, Salo Sampara, Sampara-rivier | |
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  Location of river mouth  Sampara River (Indonesia) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Southeast Sulawesi |
| Length | 341 km (212 mi) |
| Basin size | 6,905.9 km2 (2,666.4 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | 157.5 m3/s (5,560 cu ft/s)[1] |
Sampara River is a river in the province of Southeast Sulawesi on the Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1800 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[2][3]
Geography
[edit]The river flows in the southeast area of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical monsoon climate (designated as Am in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is February, at 21 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 2926 mm. The wettest month is May, with an average of 461 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 27 mm rainfall.[6]
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b "Java-Timor-Sulawesi".
- ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
- ^ Sungai Sampara at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- ^ 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.
- ^ a b "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.