Tayan Bridge is a bridge which crosses Kapuas River in Sanggau, West Kalimantan, Indonesia. This bridge is a part of Trans-Kalimantan Highway that connects West Borneo with Central Borneo. The bridge is one of the longest bridges in Borneo. The bridge construction project takes about 900 days. The bridge opened to traffic on 22 March 2016.
Tayan Bridge at night
One of two ferries which connected Tayan and Piasak
Trans-Kalimantan Highway in Tayan Bridge
The Kapuas River is a river in the Indonesian part of Borneo island, at the geographic center of Maritime Southeast Asia. At 1,143 kilometers (710 mi) in length, it is the longest river in the island of Borneo and the longest river in Indonesia and one of the world's longest island rivers. It originates in the Müller mountain range at the center of the island and flows west into the South China Sea creating an extended marshy delta. The delta is located west-southwest of Pontianak, the capital of the West Kalimantan province. This Kapuas River should be distinguished from another Kapuas River, which starts on the other side of the same mountain range in central Borneo but flows to the south, merging with the Barito River and discharging into the Java Sea.
Aerial view of Kapuas river
A bridge on the outskirts of Pontianak
The super red arowana, either considered a variant of the Asian arowana or its own species, is only found in Kapuas
Female Hemirhamphodon pogonognathus, about 4 cm (1.6 in) long