Manokwari

Manokwari is located on the Vogelkop Peninsula

Manokwari is the capital of the Indonesian province of West Papua and the administrative district (Kabupaten) Manokwari . It has 130,000 inhabitants and is the only city ​​in western New Guinea that is not dominated by Indonesian transmigrants .

Overview

The city is located on the northern Pacific coast in the east of the Vogelkop Peninsula . It is an administrative and commercial city and has an airport and a port. The city was one of the first Dutch settlements in New Guinea in the 19th century . 1855 landed German missionaries Carl Wilhelm Ottow and Johann Gottlob Geissler on the nearby island Mansinam and started from here, the Papua to proselytize. In 1898 a district administration was established. During World War II , the city was occupied by the Japanese in 1942 and recaptured by the Americans in 1944 . In 1964 Ludwig Mandacan (Lodewijk Mandatjan) and Fery Awom (Permenas Awom) founded the Papuan Liberation Movement OPM . In 1969 it was one of the eight places in Papua in which selected electorates voted in the Act of Free Choice, called fraudulent election, on the affiliation of Western New Guinea to Indonesia. Even Ludwig Mandacan suddenly expressed his loyalty to Indonesia.

In 2003 the province of Irian Jaya Barat (now West Papua) was separated from the rest of Western New Guinea and Manokwari became the provincial capital.

Manokwari is the city with the highest proportion of Papuans in terms of the total population. Most of the other cities of Western New Guinea are dominated by Indonesian transmigrants .

Climate table

Manokwari
Climate diagram
J F. M. A. M. J J A. S. O N D.     305   31 23     239   31 23     335   31 23     283   31 23     197   31 23     184   31 23     137   31 23     141   31 22nd     126   31 22nd     119   32 22nd     164   32 23     261   31 23 Temperature in ° C ,  precipitation in mm Source: wetterkontor.de

Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Manokwari Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Max. Temperature ( ° C ) 31.0 30.6 30.8 31.1 31.3 31.2 30.8 30.8 31.1 31.7 31.6 31.3 O 31.1 Min. Temperature (° C) 22.7 23.0 23.0 23.0 22.9 22.6 22.5 22.4 22.4 22.2 22.5 22.5 O 22.6 Precipitation ( mm ) 305 239 335 283 197 184 137 141 126 119 164 261 Σ 2,491 Hours of sunshine ( h / d ) 3.1 2.7 2.7 3.2 3.5 3.6 3.6 3.7 3.8 3.8 2.9 2.8 O 3.3 Rainy days ( d ) 16 13 15th 14th 11 12 10 10 9 9 10 14th Σ 143 Water temperature (° C) 28 28 29 28 28 28 28 27 27 28 28 28 O 27.9 Humidity ( % ) 84 83 83 86 83 84 84 84 84 86 86 87 O 84.5 Source: wetterkontor.de

Web links

Commons : Manokwari  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manokwari University (UNIPA) in Indonesian

Coordinates: 0 ° 52 ′  S , 134 ° 5 ′  E