Songgato River Explained

Songgato River
Name Other:Keerom River, Sungai Keerom, Songgolo River, Sungai Songgato, Songgote Rivier, Songgoto River, Umkehr Creek
Pushpin Map:Indonesia Papua#Indonesia
Pushpin Map Caption:Location of river mouth
Source1 Location:Western Papua
Mouth Location:Taritatu River
Subdivision Type1:Country
Subdivision Name1:Indonesia

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]

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References

-3.4772°N 140.4013°W

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Notes and References

  1. Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.
  2. http://www.geonames.org/2082446/keerom%20river.html Keerom River
  3. https://lingkunganhidup.papua.go.id/gi/fckimage/file/SLHD/Tabel%20SD-11.pdf Tabel SD-11:Inventarisasi sungai. Provinsi : Papua. Tahun Data : 2010
  4. Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. 2007. Hydrology and Earth System Sciences. 11 . . 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007. M C. B L. T A. Peel. Finlayson. McMahon. 5. 1633–1644. free.
  5. Web site: NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index. 30 January 2016 . NASA.
  6. Web site: NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM). 30 January 2016 . NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission.