Rokan River is a river in Riau province, central-eastern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 1100 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.[1][2]
Rokan River Sungai Rokan, Soengai Rekan | |
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![]() Map of the Rokan (left) and Indragiri rivers by Isaak de Graaf, circa 1690-1743. | |
Location | |
Country | Indonesia |
Province | Riau |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Barisan Mountains |
Mouth | |
• location | Malacca Strait |
Length | 350 km (220 mi) |
Basin size | 19,258 km2 (7,436 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Rokan Delta, Bagansiapiapi, Malacca Strait |
• average | (Period of data: 2009-2013)1,506 m3/s (53,200 cu ft/s) |
Basin features | |
Tributaries | |
• left | Rokan-kanan River |
• right | Rokan-kiri River |
The river sourced from the Barisan Mountains in the west, and drained north-east-ward along Rokan Hulu Regency and Rokan Hilir Regency with estuarine located near the port town of Bagansiapiapi draining the water to Malacca Strait.
Tributaries include the Rokan-kiri River, Rokan-kanan River, Kumu River.
The river flows in the central area of Sumatra with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is January, at 22 °C.[4] The average annual rainfall is 3766 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 336 mm rainfall, and the driest is July, with 113 mm rainfall.[5]
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