Kikori River

Location of Kikori in Papua New Guinea

The Kikori (English Kikori River) is an approximately 320 km long river in the south of Papua New Guinea. The catchment area extends from the mangrove wetlands of the estuary in Papua golf to in the alpine grasslands in the Southern Highlands Province. The town of the same name Kikori is located on the right bank just before its confluence with the Delta.

The Kikori arises at the confluence of the 6.792143.615 Hegigio with the Mubi (river) or Digimu, inter alia, in the the Lake Kutubu dehydrated.

In the catchment area of the Kikori there are large oil and gas fields, which are mined since the 1990s. A pipeline for transporting (Papua Newguinea LNG Project) runs Kikori River system at Lake Kutubu over to the Papua Gulf.

Biodiversity

The Kikori River system is known for its high biodiversity, including is the well-known Mount Bosavi in this regard on the western edge of the catchment area. The catchment area of ​​Kikori with more than 100 fish species, of which 14 percent are endemic, together with the westerly, and much longer Fly River is the richest river in New Guinea. Most of the endemic fish species, however, do not live in the rivers but in the Lake Kutubu. Furthermore, living in Kikori Basin three types Cherax, an endemic blind Höhlengrundel Oxyeleotris caeca and six species freshwater turtles.