Poso River
The Poso is a river of Central Sulawesi on Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[1] The Poso is approximately 100 km long and flows from Lake Poso, about 2 km west of the town of Tentena to the city of Poso and then into the Gulf of Tomini.[2]
| Poso River Sungai Poso, Koro Poso, Soengai Posso | |
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 The Poso River, at Poso, May 1919. | |
  Location of river mouth  Poso River (Indonesia) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| State | Central Sulawesi |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Lake Poso |
| • location | Tentena |
| Mouth | Gulf of Tomini |
| Length | 100 km (62 mi) |
Geography
The river flows in the central area of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 23 °C, and the coldest is January, at 20 °C.[4] The average annual rainfall is 2715 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 368 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 66 mm rainfall.[5]
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References
- Koro Poso at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- Indonesia Handbook
- 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.
Sources
- Paulus, Jozias (1935). Stibbe, David Gerhard; Sandbergen, Frans Johan Wilhelm Henri (eds.). Encyclopædie van Nederlandsch-Indië. 7 (2 ed.). Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)