Kolonodale is a town and the administrative centre of the

North Morowali Regency North Morowali Regency is a regency in the province of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17, ...

, in

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Province of

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. It is also the administrative centre of Petasia District, one of the districts within the regency, with a total district population of 17,997 inhabitants at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021. Kolonodale was originally the administrative

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Morowali Regency Morowali Regency is a regency of Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. It covers an area of 5,472 km2 and the districts now within the regency had a combined population of 102,228 at the 2010 Census;Biro Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2011. the r ...

. In 2004, the plan to shift the Morowali capital southeast from Kolonodale to

Bungku Bungku is a town and the administrative centre of the Regency of Morowali, in Central Sulawesi Province of Indonesia. Bungku was originally not the capital of Morowali Regency. In 1999, the capital of Morowali Regency was Kolonodale. In 2004, t ...

left non-Bungku residents, both

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and

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, feeling further disenfranchised. On 12 April 2013, a new North Morowali Regency was established, partitioned from the Morowali Regency, with Kolonodale as its principal town.

Climate

Kolonodale has a

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...

(Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

References

Populated places in Central Sulawesi Regency seats of Central Sulawesi {{CSulawesi-geo-stub