Wowei River

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Wowei River
Sungai Wowei, Wawe, Sungai Wewe, Wewe River
Sungai Wowei.jpg
Wowei River in Tambrauw (Year,2012)
Location
CountryIndonesia
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • locationWest Papua
MouthPacific Ocean
 • location
Tambrauw Regency

Wowei River (also Wewe or Wawe) is a river in northern West Papua province, Indonesia.[1][2][3] It flows in the Tambrauw Regency and discharges into the Pacific Ocean.[4]

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 22 °C. The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is January, at 20 °C.[6] 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.[7]

Wowei River
Climate chart (explanation)
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Source: [6]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. ^ Wowei River. Wikimapia
  3. ^ Wowei River. Mapcarta
  4. ^ Sungai Wowei – Geonames.org.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
  7. ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.

Coordinates: 0°25′43″S 132°10′05″E / 0.42851°S 132.16806°E / -0.42851; 132.16806

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