The Pangkajene is a river of south-western Sulawesi, north of Makassar, Indonesia, about 1400 km northeast of capital Jakarta.[1]
| Pangkajene River | |
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 Map of the river basin | |
  Location of river mouth in Sulawesi  Location of river mouth in Indonesia | |
| Native name | Salo Pangkajene (Indonesian) |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Sulawesi |
| Mouth | Polong River and Tangnga River |
• location | South Sulawesi |
• coordinates | 4°50′55″S 119°30′41″E / 4.84861°S 119.51139°E |
Hydrology
editPangkajene River flows into the Polong River and Tangnga River near the sea at 4°50′55″S 119°30′41″E / 4.84861°S 119.51139°E, near the village of the same name. Upstream, the stretch of river is known as the Koraja River. The rock of the river is Jurassic Paremba Sandstone and contains many shallow marine sedimentary rocks and crystalline schists.[2][3] The fossilized remains of plants have been discovered in the Pangkajene area.[4]
Geography
editThe river flows in the southwestern area of Sulawesi island with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[5] The annual average temperature in the area is 25 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 28 °C, and the coldest is January, at 21 °C.[6] The average annual rainfall is 2570 mm. The wettest month is January, with an average of 480 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 33 mm rainfall.[7]
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Gallery
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Camps along the Pangkajene River, Sulawesi
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Salo Pangkajene at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 17 January 2012; Database dump downloaded 27 November 2015
- ^ Koji Wakita; Jan Sopaheluwakan; Kazuhiro Miyazaki; Iskandar Zulkarnain; Munasri (1996). Part 2: Tectonic Development of Southeast Asia:Tectonic evolution of the Bantimala Complex, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Vol. 106. Geological Society, London. pp. 353–364.
- ^ Obermaier-Gesellschaft, Hugo (1977). Quartär: Jahrbuch für Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Volumes 27–28. Röhrscheid. p. 23.
- ^ Tony Whitten; Muslimin Mustafa; Gregory S. Henderson (2001). The Ecology of Sulawesi, Volume 4. Tuttle Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 962-593-075-2.
- ^ 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. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
- ^ a b "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.