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The Kapuas River (Old Indonesian spelling: Kapoeas River) is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia. At 1,143 km (710 mi) in length, it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river in Indonesia [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and one of the world's longest island rivers. [ 7 ]
Between 1880 and 1890, a 30 km long canal was dug by the Dutch colonizers between the Kapuas and Barito rivers for agricultural purposes. [5] The Kapuas River is narrow (about 50 m) and very winding in its upper stream. It straightens and widens up to 450 m in its lower reaches. There, it contains several elongated islands (shorter than 2 km).
Kapuas Hulu Regency is a regency in West Kalimantan province of Indonesia. Located around the upper drainage area of the Kapuas River , it has a total land area of 31,318.25 square kilometres or around 21.3% of West Kalimantan province's area.
A timber raft on the Barito River with housing for the workers (ca.1905-14). The Barito River is the second longest river in Borneo, Indonesia after the Kapuas River with a total length of 1,090 km (680 mi) and a drainage basin of over 80,000 km 2 (31,000 sq mi) in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
Sekayam River is a river of Borneo, West Kalimantan province, Indonesia. [2] It is a tributary of the Kapuas River. [3] The Public Forest System Utility Program (Program Pemberdayaan Sistem Hutan Kerakyatan; PPSHK) has a scheme on the river aimed at reducing the level of mercury content absorbed by humans.
The area around the source of Kapuas were originally inhabited by the Taman Dayaks. [4] Around the 7th to 8th centuries, an Indianized Hindu kingdom was established by a Kutai noble at modern Selimbau. Initially a small state, the kingdom slowly grew to cover one-fifths of modern West Kalimantan (about 30,000 km 2) by the late 19th century. [5]
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Kapuas may refer to: Kapuas River; Kapuas Hulu, in West Borneo; Kapuas Regency, in Central Borneo; Kapuas River (Barito River) This page was last edited on ...