Murung Raya Regency is the most northerly of the thirteen regencies (''kabupaten'') which comprise the province of

Central Kalimantan Central Kalimantan ( id, Kalimantan Tengah) is a province of Indonesia. It is one of five provinces in Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of Borneo. Its provincial capital is Palangka Raya and in 2010 its population was over 2.2 million, while the 20 ...

on the island of

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. The capital of the regency is

Puruk Cahu Puruk Cahu (abbreviated: PRC) is the regency seat of Murung Raya Regency and also one of the towns in Central Kalimantan. This town is at a distance of 322 km northeast of Palangka Raya city, the capital of Central Kalimantan Province. The area of ...

. Prior to the 2002 reorganization, this regency was part of the North Barito Regency. The regency had a population of 96,857 inhabitants at the 2010 census (an increase from 74,050 within the current area at the previous census in 2000)and 111,527 at the 2020 census.

Administrative Districts

Murung Raya Regency consists of ten districts (''kecamatan''), tabulated below with their areas and population totals from the 2010 census and the 2020 census. The 2020 figures are rounded to the nearest 100 people. The table also includes the number of administrative villages (rural ''desa'' and urban ''kelurahan'') in each district, and its postal codes.

Geography

The regency has an area of 23,700 km² and lies between 114°27'00 to 115°49'00 East longitude and 0°58'30 North latitude to 1°26'00 South latitude. It occupies the valleys and foothills of the southern and eastern slopes of the Müller Mountains, and rises to 1730 m at Mount Lesung on its northern border. Most of the riverine area lies at an altitude of 100 to 200 m above sea level while the foothills are mostly at an altitude of 400–500 m. The Betikap and Sepathawung valleys, in the northwest part of the regency have been declared protected areas for

orangutan Orangutans are great apes native to the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia. They are now found only in parts of Borneo and Sumatra, but during the Pleistocene they ranged throughout Southeast Asia and South China. Classified in the genu ...

s. The Tumbang Topus caves have been the source of discovery of a number of new species.

Economy

Most of the population lives along rivers and relies on them for transportation, food, and agriculture. Aside from the predominant subsistence fishing and farming, the biggest contributors to the economy are forestry and mining. Timber, including high value trees such as Ulin (''Eusideroxylon zwageri'') and Meranti (genus ''Shorea''), has been commercially extracted since the 1920s, while the mining sector, such as gold and tin mining, has developed since

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...

. In the 1990s coal exploration began, and in the 2000s the Haju coal mine started to be developed.Staff (13 September 2007
"PT Lahai Coal Investing US$68 mln in Haju Block, C Kalimantan"
''AsiaPulse News''

Climate

Puruk Cahu, the seat of the regency 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.

Notes

External links

* {{Kalimantan Tengah Regencies of Central Kalimantan 2002 establishments in Indonesia