Sianok Canyon or Valley is a beautiful valley, green
and fertile. The basic flow of a creek meandering banks of searching amid the
backdrop of Mount Merapi and the Barisan mountain. Sianok Canyon is a steep valley (ravine) located in
the border town of Bukittinggi, with District IV Koto, Agam, West Sumatra.
This gap is about 100 m stretches along 15 km with a
width of about 200 m and is part of the fault that separates the island of
Sumatra in half lengthwise (Fault Semangko). This fault forming a steep wall,
even perpendicular and form a green valley - the result of decreased movement
of the earth's crust (sinklinal)- draines by Batang Sianok (mean stem of the
river, in the Minangkabau language) that the water is clear. In the Dutch
colonial era, the gap is also called buffalo great, because so many buffalo
that live in the bottom of the gorge.
Sianok stem can now be forded by using canoes and
kayaks by an organization which managing water sports, named is "Quraysh". The route is from village
to village Lambah until Sitingkai Batang Palupuh for about 3.5 hours. At the
edges still found many rare plants such as Rafflesia and medicinal plants. The
fauna found such long-tailed monkeys, gibbons, hoop, deer, wild boar, leopard
and tapir
