Palu River
{{Short description|River in Sulawesi, Indonesia}}
{{Infobox river
| name = Palu River
| name_other = Sungai Palu, Salo Paloe, Binangga Palu, Sungai Miu
| image = Silting in the Palu River - panoramio.jpg
| image_size =
| image_alt =
| image_caption = Palu River in 2010
| pushpin_map = Indonesia Sulawesi#Indonesia
| pushpin_map_size = 285
| pushpin_map_caption= Location of river mouth
| source1_location = Sulawesi
| mouth_location = at Palu into Makassar Strait
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Indonesia
| progression =
| length = {{cvt|90|km|mi|abbr=on}}
| source1_elevation =
| mouth_elevation = Sea level
| discharge1_avg = {{convert|61.2|m3/s|abbr=on}}
| basin_size = {{convert|2,694|km2|sqmi|0|abbr=on}}{{cite web|title=The impact of the warm phase of ENSO (El Nĩno Southern Oscillation) events on water resource availability of tropical catchments in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia |url=http://www.adv-geosci.net/6/217/2006/adgeo-6-217-2006.pdf|publisher=Advances in Geosciences|year= 2006|accessdate= 2013-09-21}}
| river_system =
| tributaries_left =
| tributaries_right =Gumbasa River
}}
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Brug te Paloe TMnr 60033357.jpg
The Palu River (Indonesian: Sungai Palu) is a river in Central Sulawesi, Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.[http://www.geonames.org/1633032/sungai%20palu.html Sungai Palu] at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
Hydrology
The river flows through the city of Palu, with 41% of the basin area covered by the protected tropical montane forest of the Lore Lindu National Park.{{cite web|title=The Impact of El Niño Southern Oscillation Events on Water Resource Availability in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia |url=http://ediss.uni-goettingen.de/bitstream/handle/11858/00-1735-0000-0006-B326-B/leemhuis.pdf?sequence=1|publisher=Constanze Leemhuis|year=2005|accessdate=2013-09-21}}
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| issue = 5| doi-access = free}} The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is July, 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}} The average annual rainfall is 2092 mm. The wettest month is August, with an average of 252 mm rainfall, and the driest is February, with 114 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}}
{{climate_chart
| Palu River
| 21| 26| 164
| 20| 27| 114
| 20| 29| 132
| 22| 25| 218
| 21| 27| 218
| 20| 26| 183
| 19| 26| 239
| 22| 27| 252
| 20| 29| 118
| 21| 30| 129
| 20| 27| 149
| 21| 31| 175
}}
See also
References
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{{Rivers of Sulawesi}}
{{Rivers in Indonesia}}