Poso River
river which flow from Poso Lake to Poso Town, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia
The Poso is a river of Central Sulawesi on Sulawesi island, Indonesia, about 1600 km northeast of the capital Jakarta. The Poso is approximately 100 km long and flows from Lake Poso, about 2 km west of the town of Tentena to the city of Poso and then into the Gulf of Tomini.
Geography
The river flows in the central area of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C (72 °F). The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 23 °C (73 °F), and the coldest is January, at 20 °C (68 °F). The average annual rainfall is 2,715 millimeters (106.9 inches). The wettest month is December, with an average of 368-millimeter (14.5 in) rainfall, and the driest is September, with a 66-millimeter (2.6 in) rainfall.
“Poso River” enters the record as river which flow from Poso Lake to Poso Town, Central Sulawesi, Indonesia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Poso, River and river can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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