Tuntang River

River in Central Java, Indonesia

Location of river mouth

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Tuntang River (Indonesia)

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LocationCountryIndonesiaProvinceCentral Java

The Tuntang (Indonesian: Kali Tuntang) is a major river of northern Central Java, Indonesia, about 400 km east of the capital Jakarta.^[1] It connects Lake Rawa Pening to the Java Sea, east of Semarang.^[2] There is a hydroelectric power station on the river near the lake.

Geography

The river flows in the central 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 21 °C. The warmest month is September when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is June, at 20 °C.^[4] The average annual rainfall is 3140 mm. The wettest month is January, with an average of 560 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 14 mm of rainfall.^[5]

References

^ Kali Tuntang at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
^ Goltenboth, Friedhelm; Timotius, Kris H.; Milan, Paciencia P.; Margraf, Josef (7 December 2006). Ecology of Insular Southeast Asia: The Indonesian Archipelago. Elsevier. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-08-046797-9. Retrieved 14 January 2013.
^ 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. 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.