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Mahakam River

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The Mahakam River is a river in Kalimantan, Indonesia. [1]

32 relations: Alluvium, Anticline, Bali, Borneo, CITES, Dayak people, Distributary, East Kalimantan, Fluvial, Hadley cell, Indonesia, Intertropical Convergence Zone, Irrawaddy dolphin, Java, Kalimantan, Köppen climate classification, Kutai, Kutai basin, Kutai Kartanegara Bridge, Madura Island, Mahakam Bridge, Makassar Strait, Mangrove, Monsoon, Nypa fruticans, Precipitation, Quaternary, Samarinda, Sunda Plate, Tertiary, Tide, Transmigration program.

Alluvium

Alluvium (from the Latin alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is loose, unconsolidated (not cemented together into a solid rock) soil or sediments, which has been eroded, reshaped by water in some form, and redeposited in a non-marine setting.

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Anticline

In structural geology, an anticline is a type of fold that is an arch-like shape and has its oldest beds at its core.

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Bali

Bali (Balinese:, Indonesian: Pulau Bali, Provinsi Bali) is an island and province of Indonesia with the biggest Hindu population.

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Borneo

Borneo (Pulau Borneo) is the third largest island in the world and the largest in Asia.

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CITES

CITES (the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, also known as the Washington Convention) is a multilateral treaty to protect endangered plants and animals.

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Dayak people

The Dayak or Dyak or Dayuh are the native people of Borneo.

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Distributary

A distributary, or a distributary channel, is a stream that branches off and flows away from a main stream channel.

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East Kalimantan

East Kalimantan (Indonesian) is a province of Indonesia.

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Fluvial

In geography and geology, fluvial processes are associated with rivers and streams and the deposits and landforms created by them.

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Hadley cell

The Hadley cell, named after George Hadley, is a global scale tropical atmospheric circulation that features air rising near the Equator, flowing poleward at 10–15 kilometers above the surface, descending in the subtropics, and then returning equatorward near the surface.

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Indonesia

Indonesia (or; Indonesian), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Republik Indonesia), is a transcontinental unitary sovereign state located mainly in Southeast Asia, with some territories in Oceania.

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Intertropical Convergence Zone

The Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), known by sailors as the doldrums, is the area encircling Earth near the Equator, where the northeast and southeast trade winds converge.

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Irrawaddy dolphin

The Irrawaddy dolphin (Orcaella brevirostris) is a euryhaline species of oceanic dolphin found in discontinuous subpopulations near sea coasts and in estuaries and rivers in parts of the Bay of Bengal and Southeast Asia.

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Java

Java (Indonesian: Jawa; Javanese: ꦗꦮ; Sundanese) is an island of Indonesia.

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Kalimantan

Kalimantan is the Indonesian portion of the island of Borneo.

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Köppen climate classification

The Köppen climate classification is one of the most widely used climate classification systems.

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Kutai

Kutai is a historic region in East Kalimantan in Indonesia on the island of Borneo and is also the name of the native people of the region, who have their own language of the same name and their own rich history.

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Kutai basin

The Kutai sedimentary basin extends from the central highlands of Borneo, across the eastern coast of the island and into the Makassar Strait.

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Kutai Kartanegara Bridge

The Kutai Kartanegara Bridge (also known as the Mahakam II Bridge) was an Indonesian suspension bridge that was located on the island of Borneo in Kalimantan Timur, crossing the Mahakam River and connecting Tenggarong and Samarinda.

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Madura Island

Madura is an Indonesian island off the northeastern coast of Java.

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Mahakam Bridge

Mahakam Bridge is a bridge that crosses the Mahakam River in Samarinda, East Kalimantan province, Indonesia.

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Makassar Strait

Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Mangrove

A mangrove is a shrub or small tree that grows in coastal saline or brackish water.

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Monsoon

Monsoon is traditionally defined as a seasonal reversing wind accompanied by corresponding changes in precipitation, but is now used to describe seasonal changes in atmospheric circulation and precipitation associated with the asymmetric heating of land and sea.

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Nypa fruticans

Nypa fruticans, commonly known as the nipa palm (or simply nipa) or mangrove palm, is a species of palm native to the coastlines and estuarine habitats of the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

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Precipitation

In meteorology, precipitation is any product of the condensation of atmospheric water vapor that falls under gravity.

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Quaternary

Quaternary is the current and most recent of the three periods of the Cenozoic Era in the geologic time scale of the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS).

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Samarinda

Samarinda is the capital of the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan on the island of Borneo.

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Sunda Plate

The Sunda Plate is a minor tectonic plate straddling the equator in the eastern hemisphere on which the majority of Southeast Asia is located.

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Tertiary

Tertiary is the former term for the geologic period from 65 million to 2.58 million years ago, a timespan that occurs between the superseded Secondary period and the Quaternary.

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Tide

Tides are the rise and fall of sea levels caused by the combined effects of the gravitational forces exerted by the Moon and the Sun and the rotation of Earth.

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Transmigration program

The transmigration program (Transmigrasi, from Dutch, transmigratie) was an initiative of the Dutch colonial government, and later continued by the Indonesian government to move landless people from densely populated areas of Indonesia to less populous areas of the country.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahakam_River

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