{{Infobox river | name =Melawi River | name_other = Sungai Melawi, Sungai Melawasi, Sungai Batang Lawai, Belitang Lawai | image = | image_size = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Indonesia Kalimantan#Indonesia | pushpin_map_size = 285 | pushpin_map_caption= Location of river mouth | source1 = Nokan Nayan waterfall, Ambalau, | source1_location = Sintang Regency | mouth = Kapuas River | mouth_location = Sintang | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Indonesia | subdivision_type2 = Province | subdivision_name2 = West Kalimantan | length = | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = | discharge1_avg = | basin_size = }} '''Melawi River''' is a river in north-western Borneo, Indonesia, about 900 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.<ref>Rand McNally, ''The New International Atlas'', 1993.</ref><ref>[http://www.geonames.org/1635657/sungai%20melawi.html Sungai Melawi] at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27</ref> It is a tributary of the Kapuas River.
The people in the upper reaches of the Melawi speak Ot Danum and elsewhere along the river speak variants of the Malay language and the river banks are inhabited by the Malay and Dayak ethnic groups.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IB-cY6Nh6tUC&dq=Melawi+River&pg=PA177|author=Barnard, Timothy P.|title=Contesting Malayness: Malay identity across boundaries|publisher=NUS Press|page=177|year=2004|isbn=9971-69-279-1}}</ref> A major town on the river is Nanga Pinoh, the capital of Melawi Regency.
==Hydrology== The river meets the Kapuas in the town of Sintang.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wahidin |title=Pemkab Sintang Akan Bangun Waterfront City di Kawasan Saka Tiga, Ini Penjelasan Bupati Jarot |url=http://pontianak.tribunnews.com/2018/02/21/pemkab-sintang-akan-bangun-waterfront-city-di-kawasan-saka-tiga-ini-penjelasanbupati-jarot |accessdate=10 August 2018 |work=Tribun Pontianak |date=21 February 2018 |language=id-ID}}</ref>
==Geography== thumb|Melawi's confluence with Kapuas at Sintang The river flows in the western area of Borneo with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as ''Af'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).<ref name=KGcc2007>{{Cite Köppen-Geiger cc 2007}}</ref> The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is May, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is February, at 22 °C.<ref name = "nasa">{{Cite web |url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|title = NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index|date =30 January 2016 | publisher = NASA}}</ref> The average annual rainfall is 4124 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 523 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 212 mm rainfall.<ref name = "nasarain">{{Cite web |url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014|title = NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)| date =30 January 2016 |publisher = NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission}}</ref>
==See also== *List of drainage basins of Indonesia *List of rivers of Indonesia *List of rivers of Kalimantan
==References== {{Reflist}} {{Rivers of Kalimantan}} {{Rivers in Indonesia}}
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Category:Rivers of West Kalimantan Category:Kapuas basin