Karama River
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| name =Karama River
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| pushpin_map = Indonesia Sulawesi#Indonesia
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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of river mouth
| source1_location = West Sulawesi
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| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Indonesia
| length ={{cvt|150|km|mi|abbr=on}}
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| discharge1_location=Near mouth
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The Karama River is a river on the island of Sulawesi, in the province of West Sulawesi, Indonesia, about 1400 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.[http://www.geonames.org/1641373/lelo%20karama.html Lelo Karama] at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
Geography
The river flows in the west area of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).{{Cite journal | title = Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification| url = http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.html| year = 2007| journal = Hydrology and Earth System Sciences| volume = 11|pages= 1633–1644 | date =|access-date=30 January 2016| doi = 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007| first1 =M C| first2 = B L| first3 = T A| last1 = Peel| last2 = Finlayson| last3 =McMahon| doi-access = free}} The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is September, when the average temperature is around 27 °C, and the coldest is May, at 22 °C.{{Cite web|url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|title= NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index|date= 30 January 2016|publisher= NASA|access-date= 2 January 2019|archive-date= 6 August 2013|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130806035941/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|url-status= dead}} The average annual rainfall is 2863 mm. The wettest month is May, with an average of 367 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 108 mm rainfall.{{Cite web|url = http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014|title = NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)|date = 30 January 2016|publisher = NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission|access-date = 2 January 2019|archive-date = 19 April 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190419091014/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014|url-status = dead}}
See also
References
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{{Rivers of Sulawesi}}