Liman river or Ci Liman is the name of a river located at the western tip of
Java Island,
Banten Province, Indonesia. It originates from its
headwaters in the southern mountains of Banten, around the Sareweh in the
Lebak Regency, near the settlement of the
Baduy Dalam tribe. It flows westward towards the coast in the Panimbang, region of
Pandeglang and empties into Lada Bay, the
Sunda Strait
The Sunda Strait ( id, Selat Sunda) is the strait between the Indonesian islands of Java island, Java and Sumatra. It connects the Java Sea with the Indian Ocean.
Etymology
The strait takes its name from the Sunda Kingdom, which ruled the weste ...
. It is approximately 73 km from the center of
Cilegon city to the mouth of the river.
[Rand McNally, ''The New International Atlas'', 1993.]
Ci Liman is the
main stem in the Ciliman River basin system, which covers a n area of approximately .
Geography
The river flows in the southwest area of Java with predominantly
tropical rainforest climate (designated as ''Af'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).
The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is August when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is December, at 23 °C.
The average annual rainfall is 3999 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 567 mm rainfall, and the driest is September, with 72 mm rainfall.
See also
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Baduy people
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Cihara River
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Krakatoa
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List of drainage basins of Indonesia
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List of rivers of Indonesia
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List of rivers of Banten
This is a list of rivers flowing in the province of Banten, Indonesia.
In alphabetical order
Watershed area
In Banten Province there are four river regions (Indonesian: ''Wilayah Sungai''); two of them are under the authority of Banten P ...
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Ujung Kulon National Park
References
{{Rivers of Java
Rivers of Banten
Drainage basins of Java