Muturi_River
Muturi River
River in Indonesia
The Muturi River is a river in West Papua province, Indonesia.[2][3]
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Location | |
Country | Indonesia |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | West Papua |
Mouth | |
• location | Bintuni Bay |
Length | 87.2 km (54.2 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 3,660.1 km2 (1,413.2 sq mi) |
Discharge | |
• location | Near mouth |
• average | 287.34 m3/s (10,147 cu ft/s)[1] |
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The river flows in the West Papua province 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 October, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is January, at 19 °C.[5] The average annual rainfall is 3835 mm. The wettest month is March, with an average of 385 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 173 mm rainfall.[6]
- Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
- Sungai Muturi – Geonames.org.
- 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.
- "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.