Tala River
Tala River Sungai Tala, Wae Tala, Talabatai, Batang Air Tala | |
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Country | Indonesia |
Province | Maluku |
Regency | West Seram |
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• location | Seram Island |
The Tala River is a river of western Seram Island, Maluku province, Indonesia, about 2400 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[1]
History
According to the Central Maluku legend, the three rivers:
Hydrology
It is one of the three main basins of the western side of Seram.[5] The river flows southwards,[6] and empties into El-Paputih Bay on the southwest coast of the island.
Geography
The river flows in the western area of Seram island with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[7] The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is June, at 20 °C.[8] The average annual rainfall is 3349 mm. The wettest month is July, with an average of 442 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 112 mm rainfall.[9]
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See also
- List of drainage basins of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Maluku (province)
References
- ^ Wae Tala at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
- ^ Pattikayhatu, John (1978). Sejarah Daerah Maluku. Direktorat Jenderal Kebudayaan.
- ^ a b Eti, Tala dan Sapalewa (Legenda dari SBB, Maluku). Molluca Times. April 2016.
- ^ ISBN 9789799106216.
- ISBN 978-0-299-16214-6.
- ISBN 978-1-920942-70-0.
- . Retrieved 30 January 2016.
- ^ a b "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.