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Ciliwung

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Ciliwung (often written as Ci Liwung as the "ci" prefix simply translates as "river", also as Tjiliwoeng in Dutch, Sundanese: ᮎᮤᮜᮤᮝᮥᮀ) is a 119-kilometre-long (74 mi) river in the northwestern region of Java where it flows through two provinces, West Java and the special region of Jakarta. The natural estuary of the Ciliwung, known as the Kali Besar ("Big River"), was an important strategic point for trade in the precolonial and colonial periods and was instrumental in the founding of the port city of Jakarta, but has been lost from a reorganization of the watercourse of the rivers around the area into canals.

Flows through: Indonesia.

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

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