Barito River


Barito River is a river with a drainage basin of in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, about 900 km northeast of the capital Jakarta. The average discharge of the river is. It originates in the Muller Mountain Range, from where it flows southward into the Java Sea. Its main affluent is the Martapura River, and it passes through the city of Banjarmasin.
This river is the location of the closest relative of the Malagasy language of Madagascar, the Ma'anyan language of Dayaks, from where settlers arrived in Madagascar 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 predominantly tropical rainforest climate. The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 20 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2735 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 437 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 62 mm rainfall.

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