Sugut River Explained

Sugut River
Image Alt:	Sugut River as seen on Beluran District
Map Size:	250px
Subdivision Type1:	Country
Subdivision Name1:	Malaysia
Subdivision Type2:	State
Subdivision Type3:	Division
Subdivision Name3:	Sandakan Division, West Coast Division
Subdivision Type4:	Precise location
Subdivision Name4:	Northeastern Borneo
Source1 Location:	From the eastern slopes of Mount Kinabalu National Park in Ranau District
Mouth Location:	At Beluran District into Sulu Sea
Mouth Coordinates:	6.4396°N 117.7288°W
Mouth Elevation:	Sea level
Length:	178km (111miles)^[1]
Basin Size:	30940NaN0^[2]
River System:	Mount Kinabalu National Park^[3] ^[4]

The Sugut River (Malay: Sungai Sugut) is a river located in the northeastern part of Sabah, Malaysia, between the tripoint of the West Coast, Sandakan as well as a portion of the Kudat division (Kota Marudu district). It has a total length of 178km (111miles) from its headwaters in the mountains of northwest Sabah to its outlet at the Sulu Sea, northeastern of Beluran town. Its source is originated from the mountains in the eastern slopes of Mount Kinabalu National Park in Ranau District, which part of the Mount Kinabalu system.^{[3] [4]}

Conservation efforts

Some of the distinctive features of the Sugut River landscape include the dry land forest on sandstone hills, riverine forests and oxbow lakes, where it become the natural breeding ground for an abundance of wildlife, including macaques, mousedeer, muntjac, orangutan, proboscis monkeys, sambar deer, silvered langurs, sun bear, wild pig as well as variety of bird species, including 43 species of freshwater fish.^[1] The Trusan Sugut of the river mouth is part of the Sugut Conservation Area (SCA), which was initially gazetted as a Class II commercial forest and later reclassified as a Class I Protection Forest on 24 December 2014.^{[5] [6]} In 2015, the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) recording the importance of the waterway for villagers as part of a three-year freshwater ecosystem conservation project of the WWF.^[7]

Features

The river flows from the Mount Kinabalu system through an extensive alluvial plain before arriving at the Sulu Sea. Along the river also located the Trusan Sugut Forest Reserve.^{[1] [6]}

See also

• List of rivers of Malaysia

References

1. Web site: Conservation and the Orang Sungai of the lower Sugut, Sabah: preliminary notes (1, 2). (Research Notes). Borneo Research Council. The Free Library. 1999. 24 July 2019. The Sugut (approximately 178 km long) is the largest river in northeast Sabah. From its high altitude origins in the Kinabalu Range, it flows through an extensive alluvial plain before arriving at the Sulu Sea. At the coast, there is a tidal swamp (stretching for about 8 km of the river course) with the banks lined by a growth of nipah palms and mangrove trees..
2. Web site: National Register of River Basins [List of River Basin Management Units (RBMU) – Sabah]]. Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Malaysia. 2003. 24 July 2019. 34.
3. Web site: Status of Mount Kinabalu Water Catchments after the June 2015 Ranau Earthquake – Lessons Learned. Felix Tongkul. Sabah Forestry Department, Malaysia. 2015. 24 July 2019. 7/67. https://web.archive.org/web/20190724063003/http://www.forest.sabah.gov.my/images/1._Dr._Felix_Tongkul.pdf. 24 July 2019. dead.
4. Web site: The River Rangers of Sugut, Ranau. World Wide Fund for Nature. 22 March 2016. 24 July 2019. Mount Kinabalu is a major contributor to ecosystems in Sabah with several major river systems originating from this region, namely Labuk River, Sugut River & Kadamaian River..
5. Web site: Sugut Conservation Area [Introduction]]. Sabah Forestry Department, Malaysia. 24 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190724070805/http://www.forest.sabah.gov.my/sugut/. 24 July 2019. dead.
6. Web site: Trusan Sugut (Protection) Forest Reserve. Sabah Forestry Department, Malaysia. 24 July 2019.
7. Web site: Sungai Sugut villagers to photograph river under conservation project. Ruben Sario. The Star. 22 August 2015. 24 July 2019.

Further reading

• Kompendium (Data dan Maklumat Asas JPS). Compendium (DID Basic Data and Information). Malay. Department of Irrigation and Drainage, Malaysia. 2018. 24 July 2019. 26. https://web.archive.org/web/20190524015804/https://www.water.gov.my/jps/resources/Compendium/kompendium2018.pdf. 24 May 2019. dead.