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Kuala Kencana (literally "golden estuary") is a district in
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Kuala Kencana (literally "golden estuary") is a district in Mimika Regency
Mimika Regency is one of the regencies (''kabupaten'') in the Indonesian province of Central Papua. It covers an area of 21,693.51 km2, and had a population of 182,001 at the 2010 Census, but grew to 311,969 at the 2020 Census. The official e ...
, Central Papua
Central Papua, officially the Central Papua Province ( id, Provinsi Papua Tengah) is an Indonesian province located in the central region of Western New Guinea. It was formally established on 11 November 2022 from the former eight western regencie ...
, Indonesia. It is the purpose-built company town, managed by Indonesian mineral extraction company PT Freeport Indonesia. The new town was inaugurated by Indonesian President Suharto
Suharto (; ; 8 June 1921 – 27 January 2008) was an Indonesian army officer and politician, who served as the second and the longest serving president of Indonesia. Widely regarded as a military dictator by international observers, Suharto l ...
in 1995. The district covers an area of 860.74 km2 and had a population of 18,290 at the 2010 Census and 27,774 at the 2020 Census.Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
The town features running water and other modern amenities previously rarely seen in Papua, though critics note this has come at a cost of dispossession of indigenous populations and environmental damage.
Climate
Kuala Kencana has atropical rainforest climate
A tropical rainforest climate, humid tropical climate or equatorial climate is a tropical climate sub-type usually found within 10 to 15 degrees latitude of the equator. There are some other areas at higher latitudes, such as the coast of southea ...
(Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.
See also
* Tembagapura, another district and company town built by Freeport-McMoran in Mimika.References
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