Kaso River, Borneo

The Kaso River (Sungai Kaso or Kacu) is a stream in the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo, about 1100 km northeast of the Indonesian capital Jakarta.[1] One of its tributaries is the Seputan River. The Kaso flows into the Mahakam River.[2] In 1889, Tromp reported three villages of Bukat people on the Kaso. In fact the villages were on the Penane River, a tributary of the Kacu at Long Mecai. The semi-nomadic Seputan people also live on the Kacu at times.[3]

Kaso River
Sungai Kaso, Sungai Kacu, Soengai Kasau, Sungai Kasso, Soengai Kasso
Kaso River, Borneo is located in Kalimantan
Kaso River, Borneo
Location of river mouth
Kaso River, Borneo is located in Indonesia
Kaso River, Borneo
Kaso River, Borneo (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceEast Kalimantan
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationBorneo

Geography

The river flows in the central area of Borneo with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] The annual average temperature in the area is 21 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 22 °C, and the coldest is June, at 20 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 4449 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 554 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 235 mm rainfall.[6]

See also

References
  1. Sungai Kaso at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
  2. Michels, John (1891). Science. American Association for the Advancement of Science. p. 106. Retrieved 10 December 2011.
  3. Sellato, Bernard (1994). Nomads of the Borneo rainforest: the economics, politics, and ideology of settling down. University of Hawaii Press. ISBN 0-8248-1566-1.
  4. 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.
  5. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  6. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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