Solo (river)
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Solo Bengawan Solo |
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 Map of the region |
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| location | Jawa Tengah and Jawa Timur provinces , Java island , Indonesia | |
| River system | solo | |
| origin | Confluence of tributaries in the dam Gajah Mungkur 7 ° 50 '22 " S , 110 ° 55' 31" O |
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| muzzle | in Kabupaten Gresik (province of Jawa Timur ) with a delta in the Java Sea Coordinates: 6 ° 50 ′ 44 ″ E , 112 ° 33 ′ 9 ″ E 6 ° 50 ′ 44 ″ S , 112 ° 33 ′ 9 ″ E
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| length | approx. 600 km | |
| Big cities | Surakarta | |
 The solo at Surakarta |
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Solo (alternatively Bengawan Solo , Bengawan is Old Javanese for river ) is the longest river on the Indonesian island of Java . Among other things, Surakarta lies on its banks .
It is about 600 km long. In addition to its importance as a waterway for the inhabitants and agriculture of the western and northern part of the island, there are also important sites of paleoanthropological excavations. Some discoveries of early human remains have been made in various places in its river valley, particularly in Sangiran , including the discovery of the first ancient human fossils to be found outside of Europe, such as the skull of the Java man .
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Commons : Solo collection of images, videos and audio files
