Jelai-Bila River

Jelai-Bila River is a river of Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[1] Much of the land between the Lamandau River and the Jelai-Bila River is developed by agriculture.[2]

Jelai-Bila River
Sungai Jelai, Sungai Jelai-Bila, Sungai Djelai, Jelai
Location of river mouth
Jelai-Bila River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationKalimantan
MouthJava Sea

Geography

The river flows in the central south of Borneo with predominantly tropical monsoon climate (designated as Am in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 20 °C.[4] The average annual rainfall is 2760 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 531 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 45 mm rainfall.[5]

See also

References

  1. Sungai Jelai at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  2. H. D. Rijksen, E. Meijaard (1999). Our vanishing relative: the status of wild orang-utans at the close of the twentieth century. Springer. pp. 209–210. ISBN 0-7923-5754-X.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
  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: 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.

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