Wowei River
| Wowei River Sungai Wowei, Wawe, Sungai Wewe, Wewe River | |
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 Wowei River in Tambrauw (Year,2012) | |
  Location in Bird's Head Peninsula  Location in Indonesia | |
| Location | |
| Country | Indonesia |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Southwest Papua |
| Mouth | Pacific Ocean |
• location | Tambrauw Regency |
| Length | 29.23 km (18.16 mi) |
Basin size | 267.5 km2 (103.3 mi2) |
| Discharge | |
| • average | 33.113 m3/s (1,169.4 cu ft/s) |
The Wowei River (also Wewe or Wawe) is a river in northern Southwest Papua, Indonesia. It flows in the Tambrauw Regency and discharges into the Pacific Ocean.
Geography
The river flows in the southern area of Southwest Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification). 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. 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.
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See also
References
- 1 2 3 "Irian Jaya Coast".
- ↑ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
- ↑ Wowei River. Wikimapia
- ↑ Wowei River. Mapcarta
- ↑ Sungai Wowei – 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. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
- 1 2 "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 11 May 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2018.
- ↑ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 7 December 2018.