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Telen River Sungai Telen, Tilin
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Location
Country	Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Borneo

The Telen River is a river in East Kalimantan, Borneo island, Indonesia, about 110 kilometers (68 miles) north of the provincial capital Samarinda. It is a tributary of the Mahakam River.

Geography

The river flows in the eastern area of Borneo 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 May, when the average temperature is around 24 °C (75 °F), and the coldest is July, at 22 °C (72 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2932 mm. The wettest month is February, with an average of 362-millimeter (14.3 in) of rainfall, and the driest is September, with a 132-millimeter (5.2 in) of rainfall.

See also

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

References

1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
2. Sungai Telen at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
3. 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.
4. ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
5. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

0°26′00″N 116°42′00″E / 0.43333°N 116.7°E / 0.43333; 116.7

• Rivers of East Kalimantan
• Mahakam basin