It served as venues for 2004 Pekan Olahraga Nasional. It is situated on the banks of Sungai Parit which flows to Sungai Pekan. This station provides services to Cherating, Pekan and nearby destinations. Jalan Muara is the main road that passes through Pekan Muara. Pura may have covered a much larger than the town known as Pekan today. Friday 24 October 1930 at Istana Mangga Tunggal, Pekan, Pahang. There was also permanent settlement of Chinese miner-merchants in Pekan. Its name comes from a flower, the "Bunga Pekan". One of the old shops in Pekan Lama is famously known as Kedai Ah Joy. The legendary Tun had the vision to make Peramu as the industrial centre of Pekan. There are a few Thai restaurants in Peramu, across the river from Pekan town. In 2012, Riau hosted Pekan Olahraga Nasional. Names derived from aboriginal languages include "pekan", "pequam", "wejack", and "woolang". The town named Pekan Gurney in Perak is also named after him. Similar terms for mixed Malay-South Asian people were "Jawi Pekan" (mostly used in Penang).