River
Mamberamo River
700 km from source to mouth · Indonesia.
IndonesiaFlows into Pacific Ocean5th longest in Indonesia
In numbers
Length
700km
Average flow
4,000m³/s
Basin
80,000km²
Drop
206m
from 206 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
700 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmPegunungan Fojaat 206 m
- 430 kmTariku Rivertributary
- 624 kmLake Rombebai139 km²
- 700 kmPacific Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Papua Province, Indonesia
At the mouth it carries 4,000 m³/s on average: 1.6 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 206 m to 0 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 80,000 km², about the size of CZ. 844,000 people live in it. Highest water: from March to May. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- TrimurisA town on its banks
- Frans Kaisiepo Airport (BIK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 210 km from the cityCar hire at DPS airport (Kuta, Badung)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- February and from June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Mamberamo River, month by month
Highest water: from March to May
Best months to visit: February and from June to September.
From about 2,800 m³/s in the lowest month to 4,900 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Mamberamo River: the basin in numbers
79,008 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 844,000people live in the basin
- 11/km²people per km²
- 773maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,961mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.3°Caverage air temperature
- 46%protected areas
- 0.4%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 74% Forest
- 12% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
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Mamberamo River in our other atlases
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1lake on its wayLakeyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Rombebaikm 644139km²
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Photos
Mamberamo River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Tariku River
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q726986) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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