River
Brunei River
41 km from source to mouth · Brunei.
BruneiFlows into Brunei Bay3rd longest in Brunei
In numbers
Length
41km
Average flow
240m³/s
Basin
765km²
Drop
9m
from 9 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
41 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 9 m
- 28 kmLimbang38,093 people
- 39 kmRaja Isteri Pengiran Anak Hajah Saleha Bridge
- 41 kmBandar Seri Begawan50,000 people
- 41 kmBrunei Bayat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Brunei
At the mouth it carries 243 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 10 seconds. Its basin covers 765 km². 39,000 people live in it. Highest water: from November to January. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- Bandar Seri BegawanLargest city on its banks · 50,000 people
- Brunei International Airport (BWN)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the cityCar hire at BKI airport (Kota Kinabalu)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to March and OctoberThe best months to visit
Brunei River, month by month
Highest water: from November to January
Best months to visit: from December to March and October.
From about 180 m³/s in the lowest month to 350 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Brunei River: the basin in numbers
3,738 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 39,000people live in the basin
- 11/km²people per km²
- 494maverage altitude of the basin
- 3,367mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.8°Caverage air temperature
- 7%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 79% Forest
- 6% Cropland
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Brunei River: what you find on the way
- 3Ferry piersLimbang, Feri Seberang Kedai
- 1MarinasLimbang-Labuan Express Port
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Brunei River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
18mountains at the sourcePeakyas
9islands off the mouthIslandyas
Mountains at the source (18)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Saeh Hill11 km away222m
- Bukit Buang Sakar11 km away197m
- Bukit Agok12 km away68m
- Bukit Temanik12 km away68m
- Bukit Singap11 km away64m
- Bukit Sinaut10 km away24m
- Bukit Abang8.9 km away45m
- Bukit Didaran12 km away34m
10 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
Islands off the mouth (9)
Within 30 km of the mouth, by Islandyas
- Pulau Chermin8.7 km away
- Tanjong Pelumpong24 km away
- Selirong Island13 km away
- Pulau Kaingaran11 km away
- Pulau Pepatan8.1 km away
- Pulau Silamak4.8 km away
- Pulau Baru Baru6.3 km away
- Pulau Berbunot5.2 km away
1 more on IslandyasIslandyas is coming soonOpen Islandyas ↗
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Brunei River in pictures
MalaysiaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q407792) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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