 Thus the local dialects named the confluence of Kangsar River and Perak River as Kuala Kangsar, Kangsar was coined from the word Council and Kuala means confluence of river.The Perak is mentioned in Rudyard Kipling's story "The Crab That Played with the Sea" (published as one of the "Just So Stories").There, the man complains to his creator, the eldest magician, about the tides running into and out from the Perak