Kampung River

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Kampung River
Sungai Kampung, Sungai Kampong, As-Rivier, Kampoeng-rivier
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Location of river mouth
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Country Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  location Western Papua
Mouth  
  location
Pulau River

The Kampung River is a river in southern Papua province, Indonesia. [1] [2] It is a tributary of the Pulau River.

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Geography

The river flows in the southern area of Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [3] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is December, when the average temperature is around 25 °C, and the coldest is July, at 20 °C. [4] The average annual rainfall is 5547 mm. The wettest month is May, with an average of 594 mm rainfall, and the driest is July, with 384 mm rainfall. [5]

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References

  1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. Sungai Kampong - Geonames.org.
  3. Peel, M C; Finlayson, B L; McMahon, T A (2007). "Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification". Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 .
  4. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  5. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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