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Mesuji River
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Location
Country	Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Lampung, Sumatra
Mouth	Java Sea

Mesuji River is a river in Lampung province, Sumatra island, Indonesia, about 250 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.

Geography

The river flows in the southeast area of Sumatra, which has a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 26 °C. The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is around 28 °C, and the coldest is May, at 25 °C. The average annual rainfall is 3,248 mm. The wettest month being December, with an average of 547 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 40 mm of rain.

See also

• List of drainage basins of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Sumatra

References

1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
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.
3. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
4. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

4°09′31″S 105°49′17″E / 4.15853°S 105.82139°E / -4.15853; 105.82139

• Rivers of Lampung
• Drainage basins of the East Coast of Sumatra