Kelai River

Kelai River
Sungai Kelai, Kilai
Kelai River is located in Kalimantan
Kelai River
Location of river mouth
Kelai River is located in Indonesia
Kelai River
Kelai River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBorneo
MouthBerau River

The Kelai River is a river of Borneo, in the province of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 300 kilometers (190 mi) north of the provincial capital Samarinda.[1][2] It is a tributary of the Berau River.

Geography

The river flows in the eastern area of Kalimantan with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C (73 °F). The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 26 °C (79 °F), and the coldest is January, at 22 °C (72 °F).[4] The average annual rainfall is 2,835 millimeters (111.6 inches). The wettest month is December, with an average of 332-millimeter (13.1 in) rainfall, and the driest is August, with 154-millimeter (6.1 in) rainfall.[5]

Kelai River
Climate chart (explanation)
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█ Average max. and min. temperatures in °F
█ Precipitation totals in inches

See also

References

  1. ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. ^ Sungai Kelai at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  3. ^ Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
  4. ^ a b "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 28 November 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
  5. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 8 January 2019.

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