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Kualuh River Sungai Kualuh, Air Kualuh, Soengai Koealoe
Location of river mouthShow map of SumatraKualu River (Indonesia)Show map of Indonesia
Location
Country	Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	North Sumatra
Mouth	Malacca Strait

Kualuh River is a river in northern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 1600 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.

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 21 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is October, at 20 °C. The average annual rainfall is 3,730 mm. October is the wettest month with an average of 491 mm rainfall, and March is the driest, with 136 mm rain on average.

See also

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

References

1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
2. Sungai Kualu at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2013-06-04; Database dump downloaded 2015-11-27
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 11 May 2020. Retrieved 17 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 17 January 2019.

2°45′N 100°00′E / 2.75°N 100.0°E / 2.75; 100.0

• Rivers of North Sumatra
• Kualuh basin