Warenai River

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Warenai River
Sungai Warenai, Warenai-rivier
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Location of river mouth
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Warenai River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryFlag of Indonesia.svg  Indonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
  location Central Papua
Mouth  
  location
Cenderawasih Bay, Nabire Regency
Length304.3 km (189.1 mi) [1]
Basin size4,334.2 km2 (1,673.4 sq mi) [1]
Discharge 
  average317.15 m3/s (11,200 cu ft/s) [1]

The Warenai River is a river in northern New Guinea, Indonesia. [2] [3] Tributaries include the Wapoga River.

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Geography

The river flows in the northern area of Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). [4] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is February, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is November, at 22 °C. [5] The average annual rainfall is 5824 mm. The wettest month is March, with an average of 733 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 300 mm rainfall. [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Irian Jaya Coast".
  2. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  3. Warenai - Geonames.org.
  4. 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 .
  5. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  6. "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month - TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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