Poso River
{{short description|River in Sulawesi, Indonesia}}
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{{Infobox river
| name = Poso River
| native_name ={{native name|id|Sungai Poso}}
| name_other = {{nobold|Sungai Poso}}, {{nobold|Koro Poso}}, {{nobold|Soengai Posso}}
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| image = Posofloden vid Poso. Poso. Indonesien - SMVK - 022111.tif
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| image_caption = The Poso River, at Poso, May 1919.
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| pushpin_map = Indonesia Sulawesi#Indonesia
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| pushpin_map_caption= Location of river mouth
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Indonesia
| subdivision_type2 = State
| subdivision_name2 = Central Sulawesi
| subdivision_type3 = Region
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| length = {{cvt|100|km|mi|abbr=on}}
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| discharge1_location= Near mouth
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| discharge1_avg ={{cvt|119.9|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/V1/index.php/component/content/?view=article&id=107&catid=276&Itemid=179|title=Java-Timor-Sulawesi}}
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| source1 = Lake Poso
| source1_location = Tentena
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| mouth = Gulf of Tomini
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| river_system = Poso River
| basin_size = {{cvt|2,673.4|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/V1/index.php/component/content/?view=article&id=107&catid=276&Itemid=179|title=Java-Timor-Sulawesi}}
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The Poso is a river of Central Sulawesi on Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[http://www.geonames.org/1630719/koro%20poso.html Koro Poso] at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27 The Poso is approximately 100 km long and flows from Lake Poso, about 2 km west of the town of Tentena to the city of Poso and then into the Gulf of Tomini.[https://books.google.com/books?id=JUlvd1a14VEC&dq=poso+river&pg=PA738 Indonesia Handbook]
Geography
The river flows in the central 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 {{convert|22|C|F}}. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around {{convert|23|C|F}}, and the coldest is January, at {{convert|20|C|F}}.{{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= 4 January 2019|archive-date= 10 May 2020|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20200510015442/http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|url-status= dead}} The average annual rainfall is {{convert|2715|mm|sp=us|abbr=off}}. The wettest month is December, with an average of {{convert|368|mm|sp=us|adj=on}} rainfall, and the driest is September, with a {{convert|66|mm|sp=us|adj=on}} 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 = 4 January 2019|archive-date = 11 May 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200511075534/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M|url-status = dead}}
{{climate_chart
| Poso River
| 19| 22| 268
| 20| 24| 159
| 18| 24| 240
| 18| 24| 356
| 20| 25| 368
| 20| 23| 229
| 19| 24| 262
| 20| 25| 149
| 19| 26| 66
| 20| 26| 152
| 20| 24| 257
| 20| 23| 211
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See also
References
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= Sources =
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- {{cite book|last=Paulus|first=Jozias|editor-last=Stibbe|editor-last2=Sandbergen|editor-first=David Gerhard|editor-first2=Frans Johan Wilhelm Henri|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dgc3AQAAMAAJ|title=Encyclopædie van Nederlandsch-Indië|year=1935|volume=7|edition=2|location=The Hague|publisher=Martinus Nijhoff}}
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{{Rivers of Sulawesi}}
{{Rivers in Indonesia}}
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{{Coord|1.3887|S|120.7499|E|source:wikidata|display=title}}