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River in Indonesia
Pangkajene River
Map of the river basin
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Pangkajene 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 / -4.84861; 119.51139, 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. The fossilized remains of plants have been discovered in the Pangkajene area.
Geography
The river flows in the southwestern 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 25 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 28 °C, and the coldest is January, at 21 °C. 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.
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.
Map of the river basin
Location of river mouth in SulawesiShow map of Sulawesi
Camps along the Pangkajene River, Sulawesi
