Laa River
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| name_other = Sungai Laa, Salo Laa, Sungai La, Salo La
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| subdivision_name1 = Indonesia
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| subdivision_name2 = Central Sulawesi
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The Laa River is a river in Sulawesi, Indonesia, about 1700 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[https://books.google.com/books?id=BQJZQIqApC0C&dq=Laa+River+Sulawesi&pg=PA65 Colonial 'reformation' in the Highlands of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1892-1995] by Albert Schrauwers University of Toronto Press, 2000 page65
Hydrology
Geography
The river flows in the eastern area of Sulawesi which has a 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| issue = 5| doi-access = free}} The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is February, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is July, at 21 °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= 18 January 2019|archive-date= 10 May 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200510015442/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|url-status= dead}} The average annual rainfall is 4154 mm. The wettest month is April, with an average of 522 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 94 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 = 18 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}}
{{climate_chart
| Laa River
| 21| 24| 450
| 25| 26| 332
| 20| 26| 482
| 22| 25| 522
| 19| 25| 479
| 21| 23| 473
| 19| 23| 516
| 20| 23| 160
| 21| 27| 105
| 22| 28| 94
| 21| 27| 199
| 22| 25| 342
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See also
References
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