Kuala Kencana District
Distrik Kuala Kencana
Aerial view of Kuala Kencana
CountryIndonesia
ProvinceCentral Papua
RegencyMimika Regency
Population
 (2020)
  Total27,774
Time zoneUTC+9 (IEST)
A church in Kuala Kencana

Kuala Kencana (literally "golden estuary")[1] is a district in Mimika Regency, Central Papua, Indonesia. It is the purpose-built company town, managed by Indonesian mineral extraction company PT Freeport Indonesia. The new town was inaugurated by Indonesian President Suharto in 1995.[2] The district covers an area of 860.74 km2 and had a population of 18,290 at the 2010 Census and 27,774 at the 2020 Census.[3]

The town features running water and other modern amenities previously rarely seen in Papua, though critics note this has come at a cost of dispossession of indigenous populations and environmental damage.[4]

Climate

Kuala Kencana has a tropical rainforest climate (Af) with heavy to very heavy rainfall year-round.

Climate data for Kuala Kencana
Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Year
Mean daily maximum °C (°F) 31.1
(88.0)
31.0
(87.8)
31.0
(87.8)
30.6
(87.1)
30.1
(86.2)
28.7
(83.7)
27.8
(82.0)
28.0
(82.4)
28.7
(83.7)
29.6
(85.3)
30.7
(87.3)
31.0
(87.8)
29.9
(85.8)
Daily mean °C (°F) 26.5
(79.7)
26.4
(79.5)
26.4
(79.5)
26.2
(79.2)
26.0
(78.8)
24.9
(76.8)
24.3
(75.7)
24.5
(76.1)
24.9
(76.8)
25.6
(78.1)
26.2
(79.2)
26.4
(79.5)
25.7
(78.2)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F) 21.9
(71.4)
21.8
(71.2)
21.9
(71.4)
21.9
(71.4)
21.9
(71.4)
21.2
(70.2)
20.8
(69.4)
21.0
(69.8)
21.1
(70.0)
21.6
(70.9)
21.8
(71.2)
21.9
(71.4)
21.6
(70.8)
Average rainfall mm (inches) 248
(9.8)
255
(10.0)
285
(11.2)
291
(11.5)
308
(12.1)
343
(13.5)
397
(15.6)
385
(15.2)
265
(10.4)
194
(7.6)
170
(6.7)
217
(8.5)
3,358
(132.1)
Source: Climate-Data.org[5]


See also

  • Tembagapura, another district and company town built by Freeport-McMoran in Mimika.

References

  1. Karen Jacobs (31 December 2012). Collecting Kamoro: Objects, Encounters and Representation in Papua (Western New Guinea). Sidestone Press. pp. 111–. ISBN 978-90-8890-088-4.
  2. Denise Leith (2003). The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 80–. ISBN 978-0-8248-2566-9.
  3. Badan Pusat Statistik, Jakarta, 2021.
  4. Paul Kingsnorth (2004). One No, Many Yeses: A Journey to the Heart of the Global Resistance Movement. Simon and Schuster. pp. 186–. ISBN 978-0-7432-2027-9.
  5. "Climate: Kuala Kencana". Climate-Data.org. Retrieved 21 December 2020.

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