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Simpang-kiri River Sungai Simpangkiri, Sungai Simpang Kiri
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Location
Country	Indonesia
Province	Riau
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Sumatra
Mouth	Kateman River
• location	Riau

Simpang-kiri River (Indonesian: Sungai Simpangkiri, means: Left Junction River) is a river in Riau province, central-eastern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 800 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.

Geography

The river flows in the central area of Sumatra with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 23 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2667 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 402 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 104 mm rainfall.

See also

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

References

1. OpenStreetMap. Accessed 19 Jan 2019.
2. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
3. Sungai Simpangkiri at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
4. Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification" (PDF). Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
5. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
6. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

0°09′57″N 103°15′20″E / 0.1658°N 103.2555°E / 0.1658; 103.2555

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