Kuala Penyu
Town and district capital in Sabah, Malaysia
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History and Origin of the Name:
- Legend of Batu Penyu:
The name “Kuala Penyu” comes from a cluster of rocks at the mouth of the Sitompok River that resemble the shape of a turtle, or penyu in Malay.
- Sitompok:
In the early 1960s, this area was more commonly known as “Sitompok”, referring to those distinctive rock formations.
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Geography
Kuala Penyu is located on the Klias Peninsula, which was once originally covered with mangrove swamp forests. Much of these mangrove swamps were destroyed by land developers that later realised that the soils were much too acidic to support palm oil.
Climate
Kuala Penyu has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.
Demographics
According to general unrecorded consensus, most Kuala Penyuan are farmers with some younger generations are migrating to towns. It is widely diversified with unrecorded consensus has it that majority are embracing or practising Christianity or Islam, while some are still sticking to animism. As a part of clarification on ethnic group in Kuala Penyu, it's fair enough to mention that every one of them specifically by percentage base on previous official record through consensus report year 2010 was stated 659 peoples, where the most races as follow; ethnic Dusun people of the Dusun Tatana and Bisaya sub-groups, Bruneian Malay, Kedayan, Bajau, Chinese, Indian and others.