Teunom River

Teunom River is a river in northern Sumatra, in the province of Aceh, Indonesia, about 1700 km northeast of the capital Jakarta.[1][2]

Teunom River
Krueng Teunom, Sungai Teunom, Tönom
Location of the mouth
Teunom River (Sumatra)
Teunom River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationSumatra
MouthIndian Ocean
  location
Aceh

Geography

The river flows along the northern area of Sumatra with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[3] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is February, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is January, at 22 °C.[4] The average annual rainfall is 4059 mm. The wettest month is November, with an average of 536 mm rainfall, and the driest is July, with 205 mm rainfall.[5]

See also

References

  1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. Krueng Teunom at Geonames.org (cc-by); Last updated 2012-01-17; 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.
  4. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  5. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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