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Kapuas River
| Kapuas | |
|---|---|
 Aerial view of Kapuas river | |
 | |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Mount Raya at Müller Mountain Range |
| • elevation | 2,278 m (7,474 ft) |
| Mouth | |
• location | South China Sea |
• coordinates | 0°4′0″S 109°10′59″E / 0.06667°S 109.18306°E |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
| Length | 1,143 km (710 mi)[1] |
| Basin size | 98,749.1 km2 (38,127.2 sq mi)[2] |
| Depth | |
| • maximum | 40 m (130 ft)[1] to 50 m (160 ft)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Kapuas Delta |
| • average | (Period: 2003–2016)6,012 m3/s (212,300 cu ft/s)[3] |
| Basin features | |
| Progression | South China Sea |
| River system | Kapuas River[4] |
| Tributaries | |
| • left | Bungan, Keriau, Manday, Bunut, Embau, Silat, Melawi, Tempunak, Sepauk, Sekadau |
| • right | Mandalam, Sibau, Awin, Palin, Embaloh, Tawang, Ketungau, Belitang, Sekayam, Tayan, Landak |
The Kapuas River (Old Indonesian spelling: Kapoeas River) is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia. At 1,143 km (710 mi) in length, it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river in Indonesia[5][6] and one of the world's longest island rivers.[7] It originates in the Müller mountain range at the center of the island and flows west into the South China Sea creating an extended marshy delta. The delta is located west-southwest of Pontianak, the capital of the West Kalimantan province.[8] This Kapuas River should be distinguished from another Kapuas, which starts on the other side of the same mountain range in central Borneo but flows to the south, merging with the Barito and discharging into the Java Sea.
- ^ a b David Fernando, Munõz Pauta (2017). Tidal influence on the discharge distribution at two junctions of the Kapuas River (West Kalimantan, Indonesia) (Thesis).
- ^ a b Karl, Kästner (2019). Multi-Scale Monitoring and Modelling of the Kapuas River Delta. doi:10.18174/468716. ISBN 978-94-6343-411-9.
- ^ Ting-Hsuan, Huang; Chen-Tung, Arthur Chen; Hsiao-Chun, Tseng; Jiann-Yuh, Lou; Shu Lun, Wang; Liyang, Yang; Selvaraj, Kandasamy; Xuelu, Gao; Jough-Tai, Wang; Edvin, Aldrian; G.S., Jacinto; Gusti Z., Anshari; Penjai, Sompongchaiyakul; B.J., Wang (May 2017). "Riverine carbon fluxes to the South China Sea: Riverine carbon fluxes to the SCS". Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 122 (5): 1239–1259. doi:10.1002/2016JG003701. S2CID 135024272.
- ^ Hukum Online. "Keputusan Menteri Kehutanan No. SK.511/MENHUT-V/2011" (in Indonesian).
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
b1was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ MacKinnon, p. 133
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
SMwas invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ Kapuas River Archived 26 April 2015 at the Wayback Machine, Encyclopædia Britannica on-line
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