Sadang River
| Sadang River Sungai Sadang, Salo Sadang, Salo Sa’dang, Salu Saqdan | |
|---|---|
 Sadang river | |
  Location of river mouth  Sadang River (Indonesia) | |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| State | South Sulawesi |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Length | 150 km (93 mi) |
| Basin size | 6,466 km2 (2,497 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | 265 m3/s (9,400 cu ft/s) |
The Sadang is a river of Sulawesi in South Sulawesi province, Indonesia.[1] It is one of the major rivers which flow into the Strait of Macassar.[2]
Geography
[edit]The river flows in the southwest area of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is June, at 22 °C.[4] The average annual rainfall is 2500 mm. The wettest month is May, with an average of 387 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 68 mm rainfall.[5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Salo Sadang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- ^ Encyclopædia Britannica
- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.