The Angke River ( or , ) is a long river in

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. The river flows from the

Bogor Bogor City (), or Bogor (, ), is a landlocked city in the West Java, Indonesia. Located around south of the national capital of Jakarta, Bogor is the 6th largest city in the Jakarta metropolitan area and the 14th overall nationwide.

area of

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, passing through the cities of Tangerang (

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) and

into the

Java Sea The Java Sea (, ) is an extensive shallow sea on the Sunda Shelf, between the Indonesian islands of Borneo to the north, Java to the south, Sumatra to the west, and Sulawesi to the east. Karimata Strait to its northwest links it to the South Ch ...

via the Cengkareng Drain.BBWS Ciliwung Cisadane. ''Pengendalian Banjir dan Perbaikan Sungai Ciliwung Cisadane'' (PBPS CC)
Archived in ''Konservasi DAS Ciliwung''
- April 2012. The river is connected with the Cisadane River by the Mookervaart Canal.

Etymology

The river may be named after Prince Tubagus Angke, from the

Banten Sultanate The Banten Sultanate (, ) was a Bantenese people, Bantenese Islamic trading sultanate, kingdom founded in the 16th century and centred in Bantam (city), Banten, a port city on the northwest coast of Java; the contemporary English name of both w ...

, who was the ruler of Jayakarta in the 16th century. Another theory is that the name refers to the 1740 Batavia massacre in which 10,000 ethnic Chinese residents of the city were massacred by the

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with many bodies dumped in the river. ''Ang'' means "red" in

Hokkien Hokkien ( , ) is a Varieties of Chinese, variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese language, Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred ...

, which could refer to the bloody event. Angke river 070826-269 mank

Hydrology

The main river has a length of , with a watershed area (Indonesian: ''Daerah Pengaliran Sungai'') of 480 km². The average daily rainfall is 132 mm, with the peak debit at 290 m³. The river never dries throughout the year, because it connects directly to a constant source at the districts of Menteng and Cilendek Timur in the city of Bogor,

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. From there it flows through the territory of South Tangerang, Tangerang,

, and drains to the Java Sea in the village of Muara Angke (literally: "(river) mouth of Angke"), Penjaringan, West Jakarta. In rainy seasons, the river annually causes local floods, usually in the districts of Pinang, Cipondoh, Ciledug (all in Tangerang), Joglo, Kembangan, Rawa Buaya, Duri Kosambi and Cengkareng (all in West Jakarta).

Geography

The river flows in the northwest area of Java with a predominantly

tropical rainforest climate A tropical rainforest climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southeast Florida, United States ...

(designated as ''Af'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). The annual average temperature in the area is 27 °C. The warmest month is March, when the average temperature is around 30 °C, and the coldest is May, at 26 °C. The average annual rainfall is 3674 mm. The wettest month is December, with an average of 456 mm of rainfall, and the driest is September, with 87 mm of rainfall.

Historic place

Fort Anké was built by the

in 1657 at the intersection of the Mookervaart channel and Angke River. Historical names for the fort include Anckee, Anke, and Ankee.

References

{{Rivers of Java Landforms of Jakarta Rivers of Jakarta Angke basin

Etymology

Hydrology

Geography

Historic place

See also

References