MacBook overheating after installing OS X Mavericks

My MacBook overheats when running for mutliple hours. The issue started during first use after installing OS X Mavericks, and has occured every use since.

That is a normal place for the computer to get warm when there is some CPU/graphic intensive activity.
After an upgrade like this it is normal for Spotlight to re-index your disk.  This can take quite some time, depending upon your computer, and it certainly adds some heat.  Eventually this will stop. Of course, this may or may not be your problem.
If you use Activity Monitor, with "All Processes" selected in the view menu and then sort by CPU usage, do you see anything using, say, double digit % ?  (You may have to wait a few seconds for things to settle down after switching to Activity Monitor.)  Are you using an external display or anything that is graphic intensive?

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