Wapoga River

Wapoga River is a river in northern New Guinea, Indonesia.[1][2] 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.[3] The rainbowfish Glossolepis leggetti and Melanotaenia rubripinnis are only known from this river system.

Wapoga River
Sungai Wapoga, Wai Poga, Wappoya, Wapongga River, Wapoga Rivier, Watoga, Wapangga-rivier
Location of river mouth
Wapoga River (Indonesia)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationWestern Papua
Mouth 
 • location
Nabire Regency

The Keuw language is spoken within the watershed of the Wapoga River.[4]

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Wapoga River
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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).[6] 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.[5] 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.[7]

See also

References
  1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. Sungai Wapoga – Geonames.org.
  3. 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.CS1 maint: extra text: authors list (link)
  4. 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.
  5. "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  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: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

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