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Bongka River Sungai Bongka, Sungai Bangka, Salo Bongka, Sungai Kalingsu, Salo Kalingsoe
Location of river mouth in SulawesiShow map of SulawesiLocation of river mouth in IndonesiaShow map of Indonesia
Location
Country	Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Central Sulawesi
Mouth	Gulf of Tomini
Length	122 km (76 mi)
Basin size	3,085 km (1,191 sq mi)
Discharge
• location	Near mouth
• average	132.8 m/s (4,690 cu ft/s)

The Bongka River is a river in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, about 1700 km northeast of capital Jakarta

Geography

The river flows in the central area of Sulawesi island with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is April, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2929 mm. The wettest month is April, with an average of 341 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 79 mm rainfall.

See also

• List of drainage basins of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Sulawesi

References

1. ^ "Java-Timor-Sulawesi".
2. Sungai Bongka at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 17 January 2012; Database dump downloaded 27 November 2015
3. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
4. 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. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
5. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
6. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 27 December 2018.

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• Rivers of Central Sulawesi
• Bongka basin