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Tembesi River Batang Tembesi, Sungai Tembesi
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Location
Country	Indonesia
Province	Jambi
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Sumatra
Mouth	Batang Hari River

Tembesi River is a river in Jambi province, Sumatra island, Indonesia, about 600 km northwest of the capital Jakarta. It is a tributary of the Batang Hari River. Tributaries include the Merangin River.

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 23 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is January, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2893 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 346 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 101 mm rainfall.

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. Batang Tembesi 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.

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• Rivers of Jambi
• Indonesia river stubs
• Drainage basins of the East Coast of Sumatra