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Banyuasin River

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The 883rd longest river in the world

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The Banyuasin River (Indonesian: Sungai Banyuasin, lit. 'Salty Water River') is a river in southern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 500 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.

The river flows in South Sumatra province with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen–Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is July, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is March, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2579 mm. The wettest month is April, with an average of 344 mm rainfall, and the driest September, with 99 mm rainfall.

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Flows through: Indonesia.

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

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