Wowei River
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{{Infobox river
| name = Wowei River
|name_other = Sungai Wowei, Wawe, Sungai Wewe, Wewe River
| image = File:Sungai Wowei.jpg
| image_size =
| image_caption = Wowei River in Tambrauw (Year,2012)
| pushpin_map = Indonesia Bird's Head Peninsula##Indonesia
| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Bird's Head Peninsula##Location in Indonesia
| source1_location = Southwest Papua
| mouth = Pacific Ocean
| mouth_location = Tambrauw Regency
| subdivision_type1 = Country
| subdivision_name1 = Indonesia
| length = {{cvt|29.23|km|mi|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/MAPS/SOUTH%20ASIA/PAPUA_IRIAN/index.html|title=Irian Jaya Coast}}
| source1_elevation =
| mouth_elevation =
| discharge1_avg = {{cvt|33.113|m3/s|cuft/s|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/MAPS/SOUTH%20ASIA/PAPUA_IRIAN/index.html|title=Irian Jaya Coast}}
| basin_size = {{cvt|267.5|km2|mi2|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/MAPS/SOUTH%20ASIA/PAPUA_IRIAN/index.html|title=Irian Jaya Coast}}
}}
The Wowei River (also Wewe or Wawe) is a river in northern Southwest Papua, Indonesia.Rand McNally, The New International Atlas, 1993.[http://wikimapia.org/24565754/Wowei-River Wowei River]. Wikimapia[http://mapcarta.com/15588848 Wowei River]. Mapcarta It flows in the Tambrauw Regency and discharges into the Pacific Ocean.[http://www.geonames.org/1621585/sungai%20wowei.html Sungai Wowei] – Geonames.org.
Geography
The river flows in the southern area of Southwest Papua with predominantly tropical rainforest climate (designated as Af in the Köppen-Geiger climate classification).{{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| date =| doi = 10.5194/hess-11-1633-2007| first1 =M C| first2 = B L| first3 = T A| last1 = Peel| last2 = Finlayson| last3 =McMahon| doi-access = free}} The annual average temperature in the area is 22 °C. The warmest month is August, when the average temperature is around 24 °C, and the coldest is January, at 20 °C.{{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}} The average annual rainfall is 3322 mm.. The wettest month is June, with an average of 381 mm rainfall, and the driest is October, with 153 mm rainfall.{{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}}
{{climate_chart
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| 20| 23| 226
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| 20| 24| 247
| 21| 24| 297
| 21| 25| 381
| 21| 24| 327
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| 22| 24| 228
| 21| 26| 153
| 21| 25| 311
| 20| 23| 299
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See also
References
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{{Rivers of Western New Guinea}}
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