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Bohorok River

Field	Value
name	Bohorok River
name_other	Sungai Bohorok, Sungai Bahorok
map_size	285
pushpin_map	Indonesia Sumatra North#Indonesia Sumatra#Indonesia
pushpin_map_size	285
pushpin_map_caption	Location of river mouth
subdivision_type1	Country
subdivision_name1	Indonesia
subdivision_type2	Province
subdivision_name2	North Sumatra
subdivision_type3	Regency
subdivision_name3	Langkat
mouth	Wampu River
mouth_location	Langkat Regency

The Bohorok River is a river of the Langkat Regency in North Sumatra province, Indonesia, about 1,400 km northwest of the capital Jakarta. It is a tributary of Wampu River.

Events

In October 2003, a large-scale flash flood in the Bohorok killed 242 persons.

Geography

The river flows in the northern area of Sumatra with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is February, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is December, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2918 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 352 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 125 mm rainfall.

References

[http://www.geonames.org/6703133/sungai%20bohorok.html Sungai Bohorok] at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
[http://www.sabo-int.org/case/2003_oct_mar_indonesia.html www.sabo-int.org]
(). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences.
(30 January 2016). "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA.
(30 January 2016). "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission.

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