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Berau River
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Location
Country	Indonesia
Province	East Kalimantan
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Borneo
• elevation	1,800 m (5,900 ft)
Mouth	Celebes Sea
• coordinates	2°10′37″N 117°55′52″E / 2.177°N 117.931°E / 2.177; 117.931
Length	300 km (190 mi)
Basin size	14,000 km (5,400 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	Gunung Tabur, Kalimantan Timur
• average	(Period of data: 1998-2007)703 m/s (24,800 cu ft/s) (Year: 2007)605 m/s (21,400 cu ft/s)
• minimum	200 m/s (7,100 cu ft/s)
• maximum	2,896 m/s (102,300 cu ft/s)
Basin features
River system	Berau basin (DAS320058)

Berau River is a river of East Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) north of the provincial capital Samarinda. Tributaries include the Kelai River.

Geography

The river flows in the eastern 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 23 °C (73 °F). The warmest month is April, when the average temperature is around 24 °C (75 °F), and the coldest is January, at 22 °C (72 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,835 millimeters (111.6 inches). The wettest month is December, with an average of 332-millimeter (13.1 in) rainfall, and the driest is August, with 154-millimeter (6.1 in) rainfall.

See also

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

References

1. ^ Frans A., Buschman; A.J.F., Hoitink; Steven Michael, De Jong; P., Hoekstra; H., Hidayat; Maximiliano, Sassi (November 2012). "Suspended sediment load in the tidal zone of an Indonesian river".
2. Hukum Online. "Keputusan Menteri Kehutanan No. SK.511/MENHUT-V/2011" (in Indonesian).
3. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
4. Sungai Berau at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
5. 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. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
6. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 8 January 2019.
7. "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.

• Berau Regency
• Rivers of East Kalimantan
• Berau basin