The Songgato River (or Keerom River) is a river in northern Western Papua, Papua province, Indonesia.[1][2] It is a tributary of the Taritatu River. The total length is 131.2 km.[3]
Geography
The river flows in the northern area of Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] The annual average temperature in the area is 21 °C. The warmest month is January, when the average temperature is around 22 °C, and the coldest is July, at 20 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 4839 mm. The wettest month is January, with an average of 579 mm rainfall, and the driest is July, with 205 mm rainfall.[6]
See also
- List of drainage basins of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Western New Guinea
References
- ^ Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
- ^ Keerom River – Geonames.org.
- ^ Tabel SD-11:Inventarisasi sungai. Provinsi : Papua. Tahun Data : 2010
- ^ 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 (5): 1633–1644. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016.
- ^ "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016.
3°28′38″S 140°24′05″E / 3.4772°S 140.4013°E
External links
- Map of Keerom (Songgato) River dan others in Papua province. Geospasial BNPB Indonesia.