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The Jeneberang ( id, Sungai Jeneberang) (Historical Name : ''Garassi River'') is a river of approximately 75 km in length in the south-western half of the island of
The river rises near the 2833 meter high mountain Mount Bawakaraeng and runs through the districts of Gowa and Takalar up to the port city of
Wilayah Administrasi BBWS Pompengan Jeneberang
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* * {{Rivers of Sulawesi Rivers of South Sulawesi Drainage basins of Sulawesi Jeneberang basin
Sulawesi
Sulawesi (), also known as Celebes (), is an island in Indonesia. One of the four Greater Sunda Islands, and the world's eleventh-largest island, it is situated east of Borneo, west of the Maluku Islands, and south of Mindanao and the Sulu Ar ...
, Indonesia. The catchment has an area of 760 square kilometers.
Hydrology
The river rises near the 2833 meter high mountain Mount Bawakaraeng and runs through the districts of Gowa and Takalar up to the port city of Makassar
Makassar (, mak, ᨆᨀᨔᨑ, Mangkasara’, ) is the capital of the Indonesian province of South Sulawesi. It is the largest city in the region of Eastern Indonesia and the country's fifth-largest urban center after Jakarta, Surabaya, Med ...
, flowing into the Makassar Strait
Makassar Strait is a strait between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi in Indonesia. To the north it joins the Celebes Sea, while to the south it meets the Java Sea. To the northeast, it forms the Sangkulirang Bay south of the Mangkalihat Pe ...
. Its final stretch physically separates the ''kelurahan
In Indonesia, village or subdistrict is the fourth-level subdivision below a district, regency/city, and province. There are a number of names and types for villages in Indonesia, with ''desa'' (rural village) being the most frequently used for re ...
'' of Barombong to the south from the rest of the city to the north. The river has flooded the city regularly, notably in 1976.
Approximately 40 km downstream is located is the 73 metre high Bili-Bili Dam, completed in 1999 with an internal volume of 380 million cubic meters.
On 26 March 2004 a landslide occurred in the upper reaches of the Jeneberang, killing 32 people. On 22 January 2019, the river overflowed due to heavy rain, causing a flood that killed dozens.
Geography
The river flows in the southwest area of Sulawesi with predominantly tropical monsoon climate (designated as ''Am'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 25 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 28 °C, and the coldest is February, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2750 mm. The wettest month is January, with an average of 671 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 10 mm rainfall.See also
*List of drainage basins of Indonesia
This is a list of river catchment areas, also known as drainage basins, in Indonesia.
Based on the National River Basin Classification map, Indonesia has a total of 42,210 river basins organized as a basis for determining watershed management poli ...
* List of rivers of Indonesia
* List of rivers of Sulawesi
References
External links
*Wilayah Administrasi BBWS Pompengan Jeneberang
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* * {{Rivers of Sulawesi Rivers of South Sulawesi Drainage basins of Sulawesi Jeneberang basin