Wapoga River

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Wapoga River
Sungai Wapoga, Wai Poga, Wappoya, Wapongga River, Wapoga Rivier, Watoga, Wapangga-rivier
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Wapoga River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  location Western Papua
Mouth  
  location
Cenderawasih Bay, Nabire Regency
Length214.2 km (133.1 mi) [1]
Basin size5,096 km2 (1,968 sq mi)
Discharge 
  average429.64 m3/s (15,173 cu ft/s) [1]

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The Wapoga River is a river in northern New Guinea, Indonesia. [2] [3] It is a tributary of the Warenai River. The Wapoga River basin and surrounding mountains were surveyed by a team of scientists organized by Conservation International in 1998. [4] The rainbowfish Glossolepis leggetti and Melanotaenia rubripinnis are only known from this river system.

Contents

The Keuw language is spoken within the watershed of the Wapoga River. [5]

Geography

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The river flows in the northern area of Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [7] The annual average temperature in the area is 21 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 22 °C, and the coldest is January, at 18 °C. [6] The average annual rainfall is 4938 mm. The wettest month is March, with an average of 586 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 269 mm rainfall. [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Irian Jaya Coast".
  2. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  3. Sungai Wapoga – Geonames.org.
  4. Mack, Andrew L. and Leeanne Alonso, eds. (2000). "A Biological Assessment of the Wapoga River Area of Northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia" (PDF). Conservation International. Retrieved 30 April 2014.{{cite web}}: |first= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Kamholz, David. 2012. The Keuw isolate: Preliminary materials and classification . In Harald Hammarström and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact, and classification of Papuan languages, 243–268. Special issue of Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
  6. 1 2 "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  7. 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 .
  8. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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