The Poso is a river of Central Sulawesi on Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[2] 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.[3]
| 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) | |
| Native name | Sungai Poso (Indonesian) |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| State | Central Sulawesi |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | Lake Poso |
| • location | Tentena |
| Mouth | Gulf of Tomini |
| Length | 100 km (62 mi) |
| Basin size | 2,673.4 km2 (1,032.2 sq mi)[1] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | 119.9 m3/s (4,230 cu ft/s)[1] |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Poso River |
Geography
editThe river flows in the central area of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C (72 °F). The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 23 °C (73 °F), and the coldest is January, at 20 °C (68 °F).[5] The average annual rainfall is 2,715 millimeters (106.9 inches). The wettest month is December, with an average of 368-millimeter (14.5 in) rainfall, and the driest is September, with a 66-millimeter (2.6 in) rainfall.[6]
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See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Java-Timor-Sulawesi".
- ^ 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 (5): 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. Archived from the original on 10 May 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
Sources
edit- Paulus, Jozias (1935). Stibbe, David Gerhard; Sandbergen, Frans Johan Wilhelm Henri (eds.). Encyclopædie van Nederlandsch-Indië. Vol. 7 (2 ed.). The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff.