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Southeast Asian and Indonesian rivers

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Barito

Barito (Sungai Barito) is a river in Indonesian Borneo about 900 km long that rises in the Schwaner Muller Mountains and flows to the Java Sea at Muara Banjar.

Borneo Highlands

Borneo Highlands, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 743, covers montane headwaters of central Borneo in Malaysia and Kalimantan, Indonesia, draining to five seas and holding endemic balitorid loaches.

Chindwin

Chindwin River, largest tributary of Myanmar's Ayeyarwady (Irrawaddy), about 900 km long, rising in the Hukawng Valley and joining the Ayeyarwady near Pakokku; basin about 114,000 km2, 15% in India.

Kapuas (landform)

Kapuas (Sungai Kapuas), Indonesia's longest river at 1,143 km, flows west across West Kalimantan, Borneo, to the South China Sea; monsoon-driven, undammed, with Kapuas Kecil and Kapuas Besar distributaries and Pontianak at its mouth.

Mae Khlong

Mae Khlong (แม่น้ำแม่กลอง), a ~140 km river in western Thailand formed by the Khwae Yai and Khwae Noi, flowing through Kanchanaburi, Ratchaburi, and Samut Songkhram to the Gulf of Thailand; dammed by Srinagarind, Vajiralongkorn, and Mae Klong dams.

Mahakam

Mahakam (Sungai Mahakam), major river of East Kalimantan, Borneo, Indonesia, roughly 920–980 km long, draining 77,095 km² into the Makassar Strait; known for its fan-shaped mixed tide–fluvial delta, middle lakes, and the freshwater Pesut Irrawaddy dolphin.

Red (river)

Red River (Sông Hồng, Sông Cái), a 1,100 km river rising in Yunnan, China, flowing through northern Vietnam to the Gulf of Tonkin; steep, flood-prone, heavily dammed, and central to the diked Red River Delta around Hanoi.

Song Hong

Song Hong (Sông Hồng, Red River), FEOW freshwater ecoregion 761, covers the whole Red River basin in Vietnam, China, and Laos, draining to the Gulf of Tonkin, with 16 endemic fish species and a heavily dammed, sediment-starved delta.

Vĩnh Tế Canal

The Vĩnh Tế Canal (Kênh Vĩnh Tế) is an 87 km canal in Vietnam's Mekong Delta, dug under the Nguyễn dynasty between 1819 and 1824.

Yom

The Yom River (Thai: แม่น้ำยม, Maenam Yom) is a 735 km river in northern Thailand and a principal tributary of the Nan River, part of the Chao Phraya system.