Lamari River is a river that originates in

Kratke Range Kratke Range (german: Krätkegebirge) is a mountain range in Eastern Highlands, Papua New Guinea. Several rivers, including Aziana, Yaiga, Lamari and Ramu originate in the mountains. Many endemic birds live in the mountains. History In Nove ...

in the south central highlands of

Eastern Highlands Province Eastern Highlands is a highlands province of Papua New Guinea. The provincial capital is Goroka. The province covers an area of 11,157 km², and has a population of 579,825 (2011 census). The province shares a common administrative boundary w ...

Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea ( tpi, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niugini; ho, Independen Stet bilong Papua Niu Gini), is a country i ...

. It flows into the

Purari River Purari may refer to: * Purari River, Papua New Guinea *Purari language Purari (Namau) is a Papuan language of Papua New Guinea. Names Purari is also known as ''Koriki, Evorra, I'ai, Maipua,'' and ''Namau.'' "Namau" is a colonial term which mea ...

basin.

Population

Awa Awa (or variants) may refer to: People * Awa (given name), notable people named Awa or Hawa * Awá (Brazil), an indigenous people of Brazil * Awa-Kwaiker, an indigenous people of Colombia and Ecuador Languages * Awa language (China) or Wa (Va) ...

speaking indigenous people populate Lamari river basin. Lamari River serves as demarkation line between the

Kukukuku The Angu or Änga people, also called Kukukuku (pronounced "cookah-cookah") are a small and previously violent and cannibal group speaking a number of related languagesEthnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth Edition, M. Paul Lewis, editor ...

people and their neighbours to the north-west, the

Fore people The Fore () people live in the Okapa District of the Eastern Highlands Province, Papua New Guinea. There are approximately 20,000 Fore who are separated by the Wanevinti Mountains into the North Fore and South Fore regions. Their main form of s ...

.Werner H. Stöckli
Kukukuku : Medical Patrol into one of the last restricted areas in the New Guinea Highlands
Acta Tropica 25 (1968)

References

Rivers of Papua New Guinea Gulf of Papua {{PapuaNewGuinea-river-stub