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Wowei River

The Wowei River (also Wewe or Wawe) is a river in northern Southwest Papua, Indonesia.[2][3][4] It flows in the Tambrauw Regency and discharges into the Pacific Ocean.[5]

Wowei River
Sungai Wowei, Wawe, Sungai Wewe, Wewe River
Wowei River in Tambrauw (Year,2012)
Location in Indonesia
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationSouthwest Papua
MouthPacific Ocean
 • location
Tambrauw Regency
Length29.23 km (18.16 mi)[1]
Basin size267.5 km2 (103.3 sq mi)[1]
Discharge 
 • average33.113 m3/s (1,169.4 cu ft/s)[1]

Geography edit

The river flows in the southern area of Southwest Papua with 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 August, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is January, at 20 °C.[7] The average annual rainfall is 3322 mm.. The wettest month is June, with an average of 381 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 153 mm rainfall.[8]

Wowei River
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See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b c "Irian Jaya Coast".
  2. ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  3. ^ Wowei River. Wikimapia
  4. ^ Wowei River. Mapcarta
  5. ^ Sungai Wowei – 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. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
  7. ^ a b "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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