{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2018}} {{Infobox river | name =Wapoga River | name_other = Sungai Wapoga, Wai Poga, Wappoya, Wapongga River, Wapoga Rivier, Watoga, Wapangga-rivier | image = | image_size = | image_caption = | pushpin_map = Indonesia Central Papua#Indonesia | pushpin_map_caption = Location of river mouth | source1_location = Western Papua | mouth_location = Cenderawasih Bay, Nabire Regency | subdivision_type1 = Country | subdivision_name1 = Indonesia | length = {{cvt|214.2|km|mi|abbr=on}}<ref name="Irian Jaya Coast">{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/MAPS/SOUTH%20ASIA/PAPUA_IRIAN/index.html|title=Irian Jaya Coast}}</ref> | source1_elevation = | mouth_elevation = | discharge1_avg = {{cvt|429.64|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}<ref name="Irian Jaya Coast"/> | basin_size = {{cvt|5,096|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}<ref name="Irian Jaya Coast"/> }} The '''Wapoga River''' is a river in northern New Guinea, Central Papua, Indonesia.<ref>Rand McNally, ''The New International Atlas'', 1993.</ref><ref>[http://www.geonames.org/1622055/sungai%20wapoga.html Sungai Wapoga] – Geonames.org.</ref> It is a tributary of the Warenai River. The Wapoga River basin and surrounding mountains were surveyed by a team of scientists organized by Conservation International in 1998.<ref name="WapogaRAP">{{cite web|url=http://www.conservation.org/Documents/RAP_Reports/RAP14_Irian_Jaya_Indonesia_Jan-2000.pdf|last=Mack |first =Andrew L. and Leeanne Alonso, eds. |title=A Biological Assessment of the Wapoga River Area of Northwestern Irian Jaya, Indonesia|year=2000|work=Conservation International|access-date=30 April 2014}}</ref> The rainbowfish ''Glossolepis leggetti'' and ''Melanotaenia rubripinnis'' are only known from this river system.
The Keuw language is spoken within the watershed of the Wapoga River.<ref>Kamholz, David. 2012. ''[http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/8%20kamholz243-268.pdf The Keuw isolate: Preliminary materials and classification] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529163152/http://www.langlxmelanesia.com/8%20kamholz243-268.pdf |date=29 May 2015 }}''. In Harald Hammarström and Wilco van den Heuvel (eds.), History, contact, and classification of Papuan languages, 243–268. Special issue of Language and Linguistics in Melanesia. Port Moresby: Linguistic Society of Papua New Guinea.</ref>
==Geography== {{climate_chart | Wapoga River | 17| 20| 303 | 19| 21| 354 | 19| 23| 586 | 21| 22| 504 | 21| 23| 355 | 19| 20| 422 | 21| 23| 391 | 20| 23| 458 | 21| 23| 409 | 22| 23| 269 | 21| 23| 431 | 19| 22| 456 |float=right |source =<ref name = "nasa"/> }} The river flows in the northern area of Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as ''Af'' in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).<ref name = "koppen">{{Cite journal | title = Updated world map of the Köppen-Geiger climate classification| url = http://www.hydrol-earth-syst-sci.net/11/1633/2007/hess-11-1633-2007.html| year = 2007| journal = Hydrology and Earth System Sciences| volume = 11<!--| sid = 1633-1644-->| date =<!-- 01/30/2016-->| doi = 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007| first1 =M C| first2 = B L| first3 = T A| last1 = Peel| last2 = Finlayson| last3 =McMahon| issue = 5| pages = 1633–1644| bibcode = 2007HESS...11.1633P| doi-access = free}}</ref> The annual average temperature in the area is 21 °C. The warmest month is October, when the average temperature is around 22 °C, and the coldest is January, at 18 °C.<ref name = "nasa">{{Cite web|url= http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|title= NASA Earth Observations Data Set Index|date= 30 January 2016|publisher= NASA|access-date= 11 December 2018|archive-date= 7 April 2019|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190407091601/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/dataset_index.php|url-status= dead}}</ref> The average annual rainfall is 4938 mm. The wettest month is March, with an average of 586 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 269 mm rainfall.<ref name = "nasarain">{{Cite web|url = http://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M&year=2014|title = NASA Earth Observations: Rainfall (1 month – TRMM)|date = 30 January 2016|publisher = NASA/Tropical Rainfall Monitoring Mission|access-date = 11 December 2018|archive-date = 11 May 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200511075534/https://neo.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/view.php?datasetId=TRMM_3B43M|url-status = dead}}</ref>
==See also== *List of drainage basins of Indonesia *List of rivers of Indonesia *List of rivers of Western New Guinea *Wapoga River languages
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Category:Rivers of Central Papua Category:Wapoga basin