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Bohorok River Sungai Bohorok, Sungai Bahorok
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Location
Country	Indonesia
Province	North Sumatra
Regency	Langkat
Physical characteristics
Mouth	Wampu River
• 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.

See also

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

References

1. Sungai Bohorok at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
2. www.sabo-int.org
3. Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
4. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
5. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2019.

3°30′17″N 98°11′11″E / 3.5047°N 98.1863°E / 3.5047; 98.1863

• Rivers of North Sumatra
• Wampu basin