Simaiya

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Simaiya
Samaia
Data
location Sandaun ( Papua New Guinea )
River system Sepik
Drain over Sepik  → Bismarck Sea (Pacific Ocean)
Confluence of the source streams in the West Range
4 ° 9 ′ 31 ″  S , 141 ° 22 ′ 5 ″  E
Source height approx.  400  m
muzzle in the Sepik coordinates: 3 ° 57 '22.14 "  S , 141 ° 16' 37.74"  O 3 ° 57 '22.14 "  S , 141 ° 16' 37.74"  E
Mouth height approx.  80  m
Height difference approx. 320 m

Residents in the catchment area 600

The Simaiya (Samaia) is a right tributary of the Sepik in New Guinea .

Location and course

The Simaiya rises in the northern part of the mountains of the West Range , which form the northwesternmost foothills of the Bismarck Mountains , which the upper Sepik surrounds. It first flows north in a valley and only enters the flood plains shortly before it flows into the river. At the village of Mukuasi / Mukwasi the Simaiya joins the Sepik after about 20 km as the crow flies from the right .

Nature and inhabitants

The area is closed, largely untouched rainforest .

In the valley of the Simaiya, which belongs to the Yapsie Rural local-level government of the Telefomin District of the Sandaun province , the Amto , an ethnic group of around 300 Papuans with a completely independent language, live in the villages of Amto , Sisilo , Habiyon and Amu . The inhabitants of Mukuasi at the mouth belong to the Abau language group .

literature

  • Barry Craig :: The Abau and Amto - Introduction to the Legends of the Abau and Amto of West Sepik Province . In: Oral history , Volume 8, No. 4/5, Institute of Papua New Guinea, 1980, pp. 1-44 ( online, uscngp.com , illustrated work on the Idam-Simaiya / Amto region).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b to map relief , Google Maps
  2. ↑ Mukwas: 219 (Yabalhai CD); 1980 Census, Martin 1981, p. 211; quoted n. Abau . 1981 ( pdf , papuaweb.org - collection of materials, typewritten; more detailed references are missing in the pdf). ; Amto: Spokesperson according to Amto , entry in ethnologue.com; based on Raymond G. Gordon Jr (Ed.): Ethnologue: Languages ​​of the World. Summer Institute of Linguistics.
  3. ↑ on the author see Papua New Guinea – My 'last frontier': Barry Craig , PNGAA Library