Porong River
Porong River Kali Porong, Sungai Porong, Kali Torong | |
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Location | |
Country | Indonesia |
Province | East Java |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Brantas River |
• location | Mojokerto |
Mouth | |
• location | Madura Strait |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
Length | 13.5 km (8.4 mi) |
Basin size | 480 km2 (190 sq mi) |
The Porong River is a river flowing through Sidoarjo, East Java, Indonesia, about 700 km east of the capital Jakarta.[1][2] It is one of the main distributaries of the Brantas River that discharges into the Bali Sea, close to the Madura Strait, and is the main outlet for the Lusi mudflow.
Geography[edit]
The river flows in the eastern area of Java with a predominantly tropical monsoon climate (designated as Am in the Köppen–Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 26 °C. The warmest month is October when the average temperature is around 28 °C, and the coldest is February, at 22 °C.[4] The average annual rainfall is 2473 mm. The wettest month is January, with an average of 426 mm of rainfall, and the driest is August, with 20 mm of rainfall.[5]
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See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
- ^ Kali Porong at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- ^ 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: 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ a b "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.