Bengawan Solo River
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river in Central Java and East Java, Indonesia
Key facts
- Country
- Indonesia
- Provinces
- Central Java , East Java
- Cities towns
- Surakarta , Ngawi , Bojonegoro
- Source
- Southern Mountains of East Java ( Sewu Mountains )
- Location
- Special Region of Yogyakarta , Central Java , Ngawi and East Java
- 2nd source
- Mount Merapi and Mount Merbabu
- 3rd source
- Mount Lawu
- 4th source
- Western region of Mount Wilis
- Mouth
- Java Sea
- Coordinates
- 6°52′38″S 112°33′22″E / 6.877111°S 112.556167°E / -6.877111; 112.556167
- Length
- 600 km (370 mi)
- Basin size
- 16,100 km (6,200 sq mi)
- Average
- 684 m3/s (24,155 cu ft/s)
- River system
- Bengawan Solo basin (DAS230217)
- Landmarks
- Fort van den Bosch ; Solo Safari Zoo; Kusuma Bhakti Heroes' Memorial Park; University of Surakarta
- Waterbodies
- Gajah Mungkur Dam
- Bridges
- Sembayat Bridge; Karanggeneng Bridge; Laren Bridge; Tuban-Babat National Road Bridge; Oude Indië Spoorbrug bij Kléwér; Kanor - Rengel Bridge; Kaliketek Bridge; Lengkung Bojonegoro Bridge; Padangan Bridge; Solo-Cepu railroad Bridge;
- Basin management authority
- BPDAS Solo; BBWS Bengawan Solo
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Indonesia
- Located in
- Central Java
- Continent
- Asia
- Location
- Central Java
- Image
- COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Spoorbrug over de Solo rivier TMnr 60050538.jpg
- Length
- 548
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- Commons category
- Bengawan Solo
- watershed area
- 16100
- mouth of the watercourse
- Java Sea
- tributary
- Madiun River
- origin of the watercourse
- Mountain Sewu Geopark
- basin country
- Indonesia
- native label
- Bengawan Solo
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Encyclopedic overview
The Solo River (known in Indonesian as the Bengawan Solo, with Bengawan being an Old Javanese word for river, and Solo derived from the old name for Surakarta) is the longest river in the Indonesian island of Java. It is approximately 600 km (370 mi) in length.
Apart from its importance as a watercourse to the inhabitants and farmlands of the eastern and northern parts of the island, it is a renowned region in paleoanthropology circles. Many discoveries of early hominid remains (dating from 100,00 to 1.5 million years ago) have been made at several sites in its valleys, especially at Sangiran, including that of the first early human fossil found outside of Europe, the so-called "Java Man" skull, discovered in 1891.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bengawan Solo River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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