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Indragiri River

Field	Value
name	Indragiri River
name_other	Kuantan River, Batang Indragiri, Sungai Indragiri, Soengai Inderagiri, Batang Inderagiri, Batang Kuantan, Batang Koeantan, Sungai Kuatan, Koentan, Sungai Batangkuantan
image	File:AMH-5140-NA Map of the Rokan and Indragiri rivers.jpg
image_caption	Map of the Rokan and Indragiri (right) rivers by Isaak de Graaf, circa 1690–1743.
pushpin_map	Indonesia Sumatra#Indonesia
pushpin_map_size	285
pushpin_map_caption	Location of river mouth
source1	Ombilin River, Sinamar River
source1_location	West Sumatra
mouth	Strait of Malacca
mouth_location	Riau
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	Indonesia
length	500 km
discharge1_avg	(Period of data: 2009–2013)1,339 m3/s
basin_size	17,968 km2
discharge1_location	Indragiri Delta, Malacca Strait

The Indragiri River is a river in Sumatra, in the Indonesian province of Riau, about 800 km northwest of the capital Jakarta. Formed by the union of the Ombilin River and the Sinamar River, the Indragiri empties into the Strait of Malacca. The middle part that flows in the Kuantan Singingi and Indragiri Hulu is called Batang Kuantan (Kuantan River).

Geography

The river flows in the eastern area of Sumatra 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 February, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is August, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2757 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 345 mm rainfall, and the driest is January, with 107 mm rainfall.

References

(2018). "The Invisible Carbon Footprint as a hidden impact of peatland degradation inducing marine carbonate dissolution in Sumatra, Indonesia". Scientific Reports.
[http://www.geonames.org/1643080/batang%20indragiri.html Batang Indragiri] at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
Kosuke Mizuno, Motoko S. Fujita & Shuichi Kawai. (2016). "Catastrophe and Regeneration in Indonesia's Peatlands: Ecology, Economy and Society". NUS Press.
''Maatschappij-Belangen'', 1875.
(). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
(30 January 2016). "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA.
(30 January 2016). "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission.

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