Sekonyer River
Hydrology
It is a tributary of the Kumai River and is fed by the Camp Leakey River.
Ecology
Part of the river traverses the Tanjung Puting National Park. Travel on the river is often done by klotok, an Indonesian riverboat. The river includes an orangutan habitat. The river is brown and murky. Gold mining takes place along it.
Geography
The river flows in the southern central area of Kalimantan with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is April when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is December, at 21 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2778 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 386 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 66 mm of rainfall.
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See also
References
- ^ Sungai Sikunir at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- ^ Sekonyer River Inmyshoestravel (includes map)
- ^ Living on a klotok Inmyshoestravel (includes photographs)
- ^ 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.
External links
- Kalimantan 2: Sekonyer River to Camp Leakey YouTube video
- Wild Orang Utans near the Sekonyer River on Borneo YouTube video
- Photos of Sekonyer by Mike Helliwell