The Bian River or Mbian River is a river in Merauke Regency, South Papua, Indonesia.Wai Bian – Geonames.org. Its total length is 580.6 km and its width is around 70 – 1447.1 m.Tabel SD-11:Inventarisasi sungai. Provinsi : Papua. Tahun Data : 2010 Some 900 people in its upper course are said to speak the Bian Marind language.
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 ForestryCagar Alam Sungai Bian 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
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