The Wapoga River is a river in northern
New Guinea, Indonesia. It is a tributary of the
Warenai River. The Wapoga River basin and surrounding mountains were surveyed by a team of scientists organized by
Conservation International
Conservation International (CI) is an American nonprofit environmental organization headquartered in Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia.
CI's work focuses on science, policy and partnership with businesses, governments and communities. The organ ...
in 1998.
The rainbowfish ''
Glossolepis
''Glossolepis'' is a genus of rainbowfishes from New Guinea.
Species
There are currently nine recognized species in this genus:
* '' Glossolepis dorityi'' G. R. Allen, 2001 (Doritys rainbowfish)
* ''Glossolepis incisus
The red rainbowfish or ...
leggetti'' and ''
Melanotaenia rubripinnis'' are only known from this river system.
The
Keuw language
Keuw (Keu, Kehu) is an unclassified language of New Guinea.
Keuw is spoken in a swampy lowland region along the Poronai River in Keuw village (kampung) of Wapoga District, Nabire Regency, Papua province, Indonesia. According to oral folklore, ...
is spoken within the watershed of the Wapoga River.
[Kamholz, David. 2012. ]
The Keuw isolate: Preliminary materials and classification
'. In Harald Hammarström and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact, and classification of Papuan languages, 243–268. Special issue of Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.
Geography
The river flows in the northern area of Papua with predominantly
tropical rainforest climate (designated as ''Af'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).
The annual average temperature in the area is 21 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 22 °C, and the coldest is January, at 18 °C.
The average annual rainfall is 4938 mm. The wettest month is March, with an average of 586 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 269 mm rainfall.
See also
*
List of rivers of Indonesia
*
List of rivers of Western New Guinea
*
Wapoga River languages
The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal and for their lack of nasal consonants.
Classification
The Lakes Plain languages were tent ...
References
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Rivers of Central Papua
Rivers of Indonesia