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Musa
The Musa River is on the east coast, south of the latitude of Port Morsby and just north of Cape Nelson.
Location
Country	Papua New Guinea
Region	Gulf
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Papua New Guinea
Mouth
• location	Gulf of Papua, Papua New Guinea
Basin size	4,813 km (1,858 sq mi)
Discharge
• average	319 m/s (11,300 cu ft/s)
• minimum	76 m/s (2,700 cu ft/s)
• maximum	618 m/s (21,800 cu ft/s)

The Musa is a river on the eastern side of the Papuan Peninsula, in Papua New Guinea. It is one of the primary rivers on Oro Province. Its mouth exits into Dyke Ackland Bay.

A plan to dam the river in 1975 caused local opposition.

References

1. Murray, J.H.P. Papua; or British New Guinea, pp. 107-08 (1912)
2. May, R.J. State and Society in Papua New Guinea: The First Twenty-Five Years, p. 64-65 (2001)

• Smith, John Wallis; Green, David Headley (1961). The Geology of the Musa River Area, Papua. Australia Bureau of Mineral Resources, Geology and Geophysics.

9°03′S 148°55′E / 9.050°S 148.917°E / -9.050; 148.917

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