Rokan River

Rokan River Sungai Rokan, Soengai Rekan
Map of the Rokan (left) and Indragiri rivers by Isaak de Graaf, circa 1690-1743.
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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)[1]
Discharge
• location	Rokan Delta, Bagansiapiapi, Malacca Strait
• average	(Period of data: 2009–2013)1,506 m3/s (53,200 cu ft/s)[1]
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Rokan-kanan River
• right	Rokan-kiri River

Rokan River is a river in Riau province, central-eastern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 1,100 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.^[2][3]

The river originates in the Barisan Mountains in the west, and drains northeast-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).^[4] 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.^[5] 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.^[6]

• List of drainage basins of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Indonesia
• List of rivers of Sumatra

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