Alas River Explained

Alas River
Name Other:Lae Alas, Lawe Alas, Sungai Alas
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:Aceh
Subdivision Type3:Regency

Alas River is a river in Aceh in northeastern Sumatra, Indonesia, about 1400 km northwest of the capital Jakarta.[1] [2] It is known for its white water rafting.[3] The banks of the rivers are inhabited by the Alas people.[4]

Geography

The river flows in the northern area of Sumatra with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[5] The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is around 23 °C, and the coldest is June, at 21 °C.[6] The average annual rainfall is 2943 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 370 mm rainfall, and the driest is June, with 82 mm rainfall.[7]

See also

References

2.9899°N 97.9362°W

Notes and References

  1. http://www.geonames.org/1215596/lae%20alas.html Lae Alas
  2. Book: Graf. Arndt. Schroter. Susanne. Wieringa. Edwin. Aceh: History, Politics and Culture. 2010. Institute of Southeast Asian. 978-981-4279-12-3. 166.
  3. Book: Stevens, Alan M.. A comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary. 2004. PT Mizan Publika. 978-979-433-387-7. 56.
  4. Book: McCarthy, John Fitzgerald. The Fourth Circle: A Political Ecology of Sumatra's Rainforest Frontier. 2006. Stanford University Press. 978-0-8047-5212-1. 258.
  5. Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. 2007. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11. 1633–1644. 1633-1644-->. . 30 January 2016. 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. M C. B L. T A. Peel. Finlayson. McMahon. free.
  6. Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 30 January 2016. NASA. 14 January 2019. 26 April 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200426054225/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php. dead.
  7. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM). 30 January 2016. NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 14 January 2019. 19 April 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190419091014/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014. dead.

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