Cempaga

Cempaga lies on a branch of the Mentaya River in southern Borneo. The Mentaya runs south to Sampit Bay and the Java Sea, dividing into several waterways north of Sampit. The Cempaga is among its navigable branches, giving communities beside it access to the larger river and the coast. In this wet, forested country the waterways form a natural network through which people and goods can travel between the interior and the sea.