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The Barito River is the second longest river in
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Het gouvernements S.S. Selaton op de rivier Barito Borneo TMnr 10010870.jpg, Dutch boat on the Barito River (1917)
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Handel op de rivier Barito in Kalimantan TMnr 10002493.jpg, Inhabitants along the Barito
File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM De raderboot Negara van de KPM op de Barito-rivier TMnr 60018689.jpg, A boat on the Barito
The Barito River is the second longest river in Borneo
Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island in the world and the largest in Asia. At the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, in relation to major Indonesian islands, it is located north of Java, west of Sulawesi, and e ...
after the Kapuas River with a total length of and with a drainage basin
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of in South Kalimantan
South Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Selatan) is a province of Indonesia. It is the smallest province in Kalimantan, the Indonesian territory of Borneo. The provincial capital was Banjarmasin until 15 February 2022 when it was legally moved to B ...
, Indonesia
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...
. It originates in the Muller Mountain Range, from where it flows southward into the Java Sea
The Java Sea ( id, Laut Jawa, jv, Segara Jawa) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. Karimata Strait to its no ...
. Its most important affluent
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is the Martapura River
The Martapura River ( id, Sungai Martapura) is a river of southeast Borneo, Indonesia. It is a tributary of the Barito River. Other names for the river are Banjar Kecil River or Kayutangi River and due to many activities of Chinese merchants i ...
, and it passes through the city of Banjarmasin
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This river is the location of the closest relative of the Malagasy language
Malagasy (; ) is an Austronesian language and the national language of Madagascar. Malagasy is the westernmost Malayo-Polynesian language, brought to Madagascar by the settlement of Austronesian peoples from the Sunda islands around the 5th c ...
of Madagascar, the Ma'anyan language of Dayaks, from where settlers arrived in Madagascar (presumably in waves) from the 3rd to 10th century and from which the current island nation's population largely traces its origins.
Geography
The river flows in the southeast area of Borneo with predominantlytropical rainforest climate
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(designated as ''Af'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is . The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around , and the coldest is January, at . The average annual rainfall is . The wettest month is December, with an average of rainfall, and the driest is September, with a rainfall.
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See also
* List of rivers of Indonesia * List of rivers of KalimantanReferences
External links
* {{coord, 3, 22, 32, S, 114, 14, 13, E, region:ID_type:river_source:kolossus-ruwiki, display=title Landforms of South Kalimantan Rivers of South Kalimantan Rivers of Central Kalimantan Rivers of Indonesia