The Kampar Kanan River is a river in

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province,

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island,

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. It is a tributary of the

Kampar River The Kampar River is on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia, about 800 km northwest of the capital Jakarta. It is a well-known river surfing destination because of its tidal bore, known as Bono. Course The river originates in the Barisan Mounta ...

Hydrology

The river springs out of Mount Gadang. It flows first to the north, then turning to east, meeting the tributaries Batang Kapur Nan Gadang and Batang Mahat. It runs across the

Lima Puluh Kota Lima Puluh Kota Regency (meaning ''fifty towns'' in the Minangkabau language) is a regency ''(kabupaten)'' of West Sumatra province, Indonesia. It has an area of 3,354.53 km2 and had a population of 348,249 at the 2010 census and 383,525 at ...

and

Kampar Kampar may refer to: Indonesia *Kampar Regency, Riau Province, eastern Sumatra *Kampar River, a river in the same province Malaysia *Kampar District, Perak *Kampar, Perak, a town in Kampar District *Kampar River, Malaysia Kampar may refer to: Ind ...

regencies, then meets the Kampar Kiri River, which is almost equal in size, in the area of Langgam (

Pelalawan Regency Pelalawan is a regency (''kabupaten'') of Riau Province, Indonesia. It is located on the island of Sumatra. The regency has an area of 13,067.29 km² and had a population of 301,829 at the 2010 Census and 390,046 at the 2020 Census, including ...

). After the confluence, it is called the

until discharging into the

Malacca Strait The Strait of Malacca is a narrow stretch of water, 500 mi (800 km) long and from 40 to 155 mi (65–250 km) wide, between the Malay Peninsula (Peninsular Malaysia) to the northeast and the Indonesian island of Sumatra to the southwest, conne ...

Geography

The river flows in the central area of Sumatra with predominantly

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(designated as ''Af'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is November, at 22 °C. The average annual rainfall is 2667 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 402 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 104 mm rainfall.

Ecology

Researchers found in the Kampar Kanan River the abundance of bivalves, such as ''Anadonta woodiana'' (11/m²), ''Corbicula moltkiana'' (33/m²), ''Hyriopsis'' sp (4/m²), ''Pilsbryconcha exilis'' (10/m²) and ''Rectidens'' sp (3/m2), as well as gastropods, such as ''Melanoides granifera'' (20/m²), ''Melanoides tubercullata'' (120/m²), ''Bellamya'' sp (45/m²), ''Brothia'' sp (28/m²), ''Pila ampullacea'' (25/m²) and ''Thiara scabra'' (4/m²).Gustika Yuli Yendri, Nur El Fajri, Muhammad Fauzi. Kelimpahan Gastropoda di Sungai Kampar Kanan Kelurahan Air Tiris Kecamatan Kampar. Jurnal Online Mahasiswa Fakultas Perikanan dan Ilmu Kelautan Universitas Riau, April 2018.

References

{{Rivers of Sumatra Rivers of Riau Rivers of Indonesia

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