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Arut River

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The 883rd longest river in the world

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Arut River is a river in the province of Kalimantan Tengah, island of Borneo, Indonesia, about 700 km northeast of the capital Jakarta. It is a tributary of the Lamandau River. The river flows through the north side of Pangkalan Bun town.

The river flows in the southern area of Kalimantan with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is July, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2778 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 570 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 66 mm of rainfall.

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Flows through: Indonesia.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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