Bian_River_(Indonesia)

Bian River (Indonesia)

Bian River (Indonesia)

River in Indonesia

The Bian River or Mbian River is a river in Merauke Regency, South Papua, Indonesia.[1] Its total length is 580.6 km and its width is around 70 – 1447.1 m.[2] Some 900 people in its upper course are said to speak the language Bian Marind.[3]

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Geography

The river flows in the southern area of Papua with a predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).[4] The annual average temperature in the area is 23 °C. The warmest month is October when the average temperature is around 25 °C, and the coldest is June, at 20 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 2952 mm. The wettest month is May, with an average of 405 mm rainfall, and the driest is August, with 62 mm rainfall.[6]

Ecology

In the district of Muting (Merauke Regency), the Bian River is a nature reserve by the order of the Ministry of Forestry[7] as the habitat of various protected flora and fauna, among others: Archerfish and Asian arowana.[8]

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Wai Bian – Geonames.org.
  2. [2]
    Tabel SD-11:Inventarisasi sungai. Provinsi : Papua. Tahun Data : 2010
  3. [3]
    "www.papuaweb.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
  4. [4]
    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. Bibcode:2007HESS...11.1633P. doi:10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007.
  5. [5]
    "NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index". NASA. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  6. [6]
    "NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)". NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission. 30 January 2016. Archived from the original on 19 April 2019. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
  7. [7]
    Cagar Alam Sungai Bian
  8. [8]
    "Eksotika Sungai Bian Merauke". Archived from the original on 2018-04-01. Retrieved 2018-11-29.

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