Mappi River

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Mapi River
Sungai Mapi, Sungai Mappi, Mappi-rivier
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Location of river mouth
Location
Country Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  location South Papua
Mouth Digul
Length145 km (90 mi) [1]
Basin size8,307 km2 (3,207 sq mi) [2] [3] 9,581.7 km2 (3,699.5 sq mi) [1]
Discharge 
  average(Period: 2002–2011)580 m3/s (20,000 cu ft/s) [2] [3] (Period: 1971–2000)540.7 m3/s (19,090 cu ft/s) [1]

The Mapi River or Mappi River (Indonesian: Sungai Mapi) is a river in South Papua, Indonesia. [4] [5]

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Geography

The river flows in South Papua with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [6] The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is February when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is June, at 20 °C. [7] The average annual rainfall is 3143 mm. The wettest month is February, with an average of 403 mm rainfall, and the driest is July, with 66 mm rainfall. [8] The average rainfall for the whole catchment area between 2002 and 2011 was 3577 mm. [3]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Register" . publicwiki.deltares.nl. Retrieved 28 September 2023.
  3. 1 2 3 van Beek, E.; Bons, K.; Brinkman, J. (2013). "Final report Einlanden-Digul-Bikuma basin IWRM case study".
  4. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  5. Sungai Mapi - Geonames.org.
  6. 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 (5): 1633–1644. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi: 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007 .
  7. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  8. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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