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Bahau River Sungai Bahau
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Location
Country	Indonesia
Province	North Kalimantan
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Borneo
Mouth	Kayan River

The Bahau River is a river in North Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 1400 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.

The river is deemed a tributary of the Kayan River.

Geography

The river flows in the northeast area of Kalimantan with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 20 °C. The warmest month is October when the average temperature is around 22 °C, and the coldest is July, at 19 °C. The average annual rainfall is 3957 mm. The wettest month is September, with an average of 446 mm rainfall, and the driest is April, with 269 mm rainfall.

See also

• List of drainage basins of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Kalimantan

References

1. Sungai Bahau at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
2. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. 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.

2°34′10″N 116°27′14″E / 2.56935°N 116.45394°E / 2.56935; 116.45394

• Rivers of North Kalimantan
• Kayan basin