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The Kapuas River is a river on the Indonesian island of Borneo.The river is approximately 1,143 km and is one of the longest river in Indonesia. The river is use to move logs removed from the rainforest of western Borneo to the coast. Borneo (including the Kalimantan provinces of Indonesia, Sabah and Sarawak of Malaysia, and Brunei) is the third largest island in the world. ... Rainforest on Fatu-Hiva, Marquesas Islands A rainforest is a forested biome with high annual rainfall due to the Intertropical convergence zone. ...
At approximately 1,143 km, it is the longest river in Indonesia, and is the major river of the western portion of Borneo.
The river rises in the mountains of Kapuas Hulu near the border with Sarawak, Malaysia, and flows west.
The river drains the extensive Lake Sentarum area, an extensive protected reserve of wetlands and freshwater lakes, and intermittently flooded forests.
The rivers of British North Borneo to the north of the Padas are of no importance and of scant practical utility, owing to the fact that the mountain range here approaches very closely to the coast with which it runs parallel.
This river, of volume varying with the tide and the amount of rainfall, is normally navigable by small steamers and native prahus, of a draught of 4 to 5 ft., for 300 to 400 m., that is to say, from Pontianak up to Sintang, and thence as far as Benut.
The rivers of the southern versant are waters of capacious drainage, the basin of the Kahayan having, for instance, an area of z 6,000 sq.
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