Sungai Rouffaer
Location:
2°45'-3°15'S, 137°20'- 138°30'E; in the lowlands of north-central Irian Jaya, Kabupaten Jayawijaya, Irian Jaya.
Area:
310,000 ha.
Altitude:
c.100m.
Biogeographical Province:
5.1.13.
Wetland type:
11, 13, 15 & 21.
Description of site:
A vast swampy plain crossed by a large meandering river, the Rouffaer, a tributary of the Mamberamo and Idenburg system (site 128). The site includes 201,500 ha of peat swamps, 31,000 ha of freshwater swamp forest and 77,000 ha of wet lowland forest.
Climatic conditions:
Humid tropical climate.
Principal vegetation:
Peat swamp, freshwater swamp forest, sago swamp forest and wet lowland forest.
Land tenure:
State owned (Indonesian Government).
Conservation measures taken:
The entire area has been designated as a Game Reserve (Suaka Margasatwa).
Land use:
There are several human settlements dependent upon traditional sago harvesting,
fishing and crocodile hunting.
Disturbances and threats:
Excessive hunting of crocodiles.
Economic and social values:
No information.
Fauna:
The site is important both for the Estuarine Crocodile Crocodylus porosus and for the
New Guinea Crocodile C. novaeguineae. No other information is available on the fauna.
Special floral values:
No information.
Research and facilities:
No research seems to have been carried out at the lakes.
References:
MacKinnon & Artha (1981b); Whitaker et al. (1985).
Criteria for Inclusion:
1b, 2a, 2b.
Source:
Marcel J. Silvius.Marcel J. Silvius.