Pangkajene River

Map of the river basin

The Pangkajene is a river of south-western Sulawesi, Indonesia, north of Makassar. It flows into the Polong River and Tangnga River near the sea at 4°50′55″S 119°30′41″E / 4.84861°S 119.51139°E / -4.84861; 119.51139, near the village of the same name. Upstream, the stretch of river is known as the Koraja River. The rock of the river is Jurassic Paremba Sandstone and contains many shallow marine sedimentary rocks and crystalline schists.[1][2] The fossilized remains of plants have been discovered in the Pangkajene area.[3]

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  1. ↑ Koji Wakita, Jan Sopaheluwakan, Kazuhiro Miyazaki, Iskandar Zulkarnain & Munasri (1996; v. 106;). Part 2: Tectonic Development of Southeast Asia:Tectonic evolution of the Bantimala Complex, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Geological Society, London. pp. 353–364. Check date values in: |date= (help)
  2. ↑ Obermaier-Gesellschaft, Hugo (1977). Quartär: Jahrbuch für Erforschung des Eiszeitalters und der Steinzeit, Volumes 27-28. Röhrscheid. p. 23.
  3. ↑ Tony Whitten, Muslimin Mustafa, Gregory S. Henderson (2001). The Ecology of Sulawesi, Volume 4. Tuttle Publishing. p. 11. ISBN 962-593-075-2.


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