The Sedili Besar River ( ms, Sungai Sedili Besar) is a river in
Kota Tinggi District
Kota Tinggi District is a district in the Malaysian state of Johor. It is the largest district in the state with an area of . The population was 187,824 in 2010. The principal town is Kota Tinggi.
Geography
The district has an area of 3,482&nbs ...
,
Johor
Johor (; ), also spelled as Johore, is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia in the south of the Malay Peninsula. Johor has land borders with the Malaysian states of Pahang to the north and Malacca and Negeri Sembilan ...
,
Malaysia
Malaysia ( ; ) is a country in Southeast Asia. The federation, federal constitutional monarchy consists of States and federal territories of Malaysia, thirteen states and three federal territories, separated by the South China Sea into two r ...
.
Name
The word ''besar'' means large. At the southern end of
Teluk Mahkota Teluk Mahkota (also known by its former name Jason's Bay or JB) is a bay and tourism attraction in Sedili, Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia.
It faces the South China Sea and has a width of approximately 12 km. The bay is situated about 28 ...
bay is a smaller river known as Sungai Sedili Kechil. The word ''kechil'' means small in
Malay language
Malay (; ms, Bahasa Melayu, links=no, Jawi alphabet, Jawi: , Rejang script, Rencong: ) is an Austronesian languages, Austronesian language that is an official language of Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Singapore, and that is also spo ...
.
Geology
The
river mouth
A river mouth is where a river flows into a larger body of water, such as another river, a lake/reservoir, a bay/gulf, a sea, or an ocean. At the river mouth, sediments are often deposited due to the slowing of the current reducing the carrying ...
is situated at the northern end of
Teluk Mahkota Teluk Mahkota (also known by its former name Jason's Bay or JB) is a bay and tourism attraction in Sedili, Kota Tinggi District, Johor, Malaysia.
It faces the South China Sea and has a width of approximately 12 km. The bay is situated about 28 ...
bay, and empties into the
South China Sea
The South China Sea is a marginal sea of the Western Pacific Ocean. It is bounded in the north by the shores of South China (hence the name), in the west by the Indochinese Peninsula, in the east by the islands of Taiwan and northwestern Phil ...
. The river has a total
drainage basin
A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean. A basin is separated from adjacent basins by a perimeter, t ...
area of 271 km
2.
[http://apps.water.gov.my/jpskomuniti/dokumen/J@K_LPD_JUN_Kota%20Tinggi.pdf ]
Bridges
*
Haji Mohd Lazim Bridge
Haji Mohd Lazim Bridge or Tanjung Sedili Bridge (Malay: ''Jambatan Haji Mohd Lazim'' Jawi: ''جمبتن حاج محمد لازيم'') is a river bridge in Sedili, Johor, Malaysia. The bridges crosses Sedili Besar River. A road bridge spans the ri ...
See also
*
Geography of Malaysia
The geography of Malaysia includes both the physical and the human geography of Malaysia, a Southeast Asian country made up of two major landmasses separated by water—Peninsular Malaysia to the west and East Malaysia to the east—and numerou ...
References
Kota Tinggi District
Rivers of Johor
{{Malaysia-river-stub