Wiriagar River
| Wiriagar River | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
| Country | File:Flag of Indonesia.svg Indonesia |
| State | West Papua |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | West Papua |
| Mouth | Bintuni Bay |
• location | Weriagar, Teluk Bintuni Regency, West Papua |
| Length | 73.6 km (45.7 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 3,873 km2 (1,495 mi2)[2] |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 239.2 m3/s (8,450 cu ft/s)[1] |
| Basin features | |
| River system | Wariagar basin (DAS720146)[2] |
The Wiriagar or Aimau River is a river in southern West Papua province, Indonesia.[3][4][mapframe not available on SimWiki]
Geography
The river flows in the southern area of West Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[5] The annual average temperature in the area is 24 °C. The warmest month is January, when the average temperature is around 26 °C, and the coldest is February, at 22 °C.[6] The average annual rainfall is 3744 mm. The wettest month is June, with an average of 484 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 153 mm rainfall.[7]
See also
- List of drainage basins of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Western New Guinea
- Southern New Guinea freshwater swamp forests
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "None".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Online, Hukum. "Keputusan Menteri Kehutanan Nomor SK.511/MENHUT-V/2011 Tahun 2011 - Pusat Data Hukumonline". hukumonline.com.
- ↑ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
- ↑ Sungai Aimau – Geonames.org.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
- ↑ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 11 December 2018.