Wapoga River Sungai Wapoga, Wai Poga, Wappoya, Wapongga River, Wapoga Rivier, Watoga, Wapangga-rivier | |
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Location | |
Country | Indonesia |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Western Papua |
Mouth | |
• location | Cenderawasih Bay, Nabire Regency |
Length | 214.2 km (133.1 mi) [1] |
Basin size | 5,096 km2 (1,968 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• average | 429.64 m3/s (15,173 cu ft/s) [1] |
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.
The Keuw language is spoken within the watershed of the Wapoga River. [5]
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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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