Bian River Wai Bian, Bian-rivier, Sungai Bian | |
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Location | |
Country | Indonesia |
Province | South Papua |
Regency | Merauke |
Physical characteristics | |
Source | Butiptiri |
• location | Southeast of Asike |
Mouth | Arafura Sea |
• location | District of Okaba, Merauke |
Length | 580.6 km (360.8 mi) |
Basin size | 8,044.3 km (3,105.9 sq mi) |
Width | |
• minimum | 70 m (230 ft) |
• maximum | 1,447.1 m (4,748 ft) |
Discharge | |
• location | Near mouth |
• average | 392 m/s (13,800 cu ft/s) |
The Bian River or Mbian River is a river in Merauke Regency, South Papua, Indonesia. Its total length is 580.6 km and its width is around 70 – 1447.1 m. Some 900 people in its upper course are said to speak the language Bian Marind.
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). 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. 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.
Ecology
In the district of Muting (Merauke Regency), the Bian River is a nature reserve by the order of the Ministry of Forestry as the habitat of various protected flora and fauna, among others: Archerfish and Asian arowana.
See also
- List of drainage basins of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Indonesia
- List of rivers of Western New Guinea
References
- Wai Bian – Geonames.org.
- Tabel SD-11:Inventarisasi sungai. Provinsi : Papua. Tahun Data : 2010
- "www.papuaweb.org" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2010-06-23.
- 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. Archived from the original on 6 August 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
- "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.
- Cagar Alam Sungai Bian
- "Eksotika Sungai Bian Merauke". Archived from the original on 2018-04-01. Retrieved 2018-11-29.
8°07′09″S 139°56′28″E / 8.1193°S 139.9411°E / -8.1193; 139.9411
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