Sanggau

Sanggau lies on the Kapuas River in western Borneo, where the Sekayam joins the great waterway. Local tradition remembers Dara Nante as an early ruler of the Sanggau kingdom, whose origins are preserved chiefly in genealogies and stories. The ruling families of Sanggau and neighboring Kapuas states formed ties through marriage, while the river linked their inland courts with the coast downstream.