What is Asmat Swamp?

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Asmat Swamp is a wetland on the southern coast of New Guinea, located within what is now the Indonesian province of Papua. It is sometimes claimed to be the largest alluvial swamp in the world, being said to have an area of around 30,000 km². It is crossed by numerous rivers and streams, and large areas are underwater at high tide.

Ecologically, the swamp is diverse. The muddy coastal areas are dominated by mangroves and nipah palms. Inland, where the swamp is freshwater, other sorts of vegetation become more common — herbaceous vegetation, grasses, and forest. A significant portion of the swamp is peatland. It is home to a wide variety of animals, including freshwater fish, crabs, lobsters, shrimp, crocodiles, sea snakes, and pigeons. Also inhabiting the swamp are large monitor lizards, some longer (although not as heavy) as the more famous Komodo Dragon.

The swamp takes its name from the Asmat people, who inhabit it. The difficult terrain of the swamp meant that the Asmat did not have regular contact with outsiders until the 1950s, and the swamp still remains isolated. The swamp forms part of Indonesia's Lorentz National Park.

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In physical geography, a wetland is an environment "at the interface between truly terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems making them inherently
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New Guinea<nowiki />

Political division of New Guinea

Geography
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Location Island north of Australian continent
Coordinates
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Motto
"Bhinneka Tunggal Ika"   (Old Javanese)
"Unity in Diversity"
National ideology: Pancasila[1]
Anthem
Indonesia Raya
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For other uses, see Papua (disambiguation).


Papua is a province of Indonesia comprising a majority part of the western half of the island of New Guinea and nearby islands (see also Western New Guinea).
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Alluvium (from the Latin, alluvius, from alluere, "to wash against") is soil or sediments deposited by a river or other running water. Alluvium is typically made up of a variety of materials, including fine particles of silt and clay and larger particles of sand
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Tides are the cyclic rising and falling of Earth's ocean surface caused by the tidal forces of the Moon and the Sun acting on the oceans. More generally, tidal phenomena can occur in any object that is subjected to a gravitational field that varies in time and space, such as the
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Mangroves (generally) are trees and shrubs that grow in saline coastal habitats in the tropics and subtropics. The word is used in at least three senses, (1) most broadly to refer to the habitat and entire plant assemblage or mangal [1]
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Nypa
Steck

Species: N. fruticans

Binomial name
Nypa fruticans
Wurmb

Nypa fruticans, known as the Attap Palm
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A herbaceous plant is a plant that has leaves and stems that die at the end of the growing season to the soil level. A herbaceous plant may be annual, biennial or perennial.

Herbaceous perennial plants have stems that die at the end of the growing season.
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Peat is an accumulation of partially decayed vegetation matter. Peat forms in wetlands or peatlands, variously called bogs, moors, muskegs, pocosins, mires, and peat swamp forests.
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Brachyura
Latreille, 1802

Superfamilies
  • Section Dromiacea
  • Homolodromioidea
  • Dromioidea
  • Homoloidea

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Nephropidae
Dana, 1852

Subfamilies and Genera
  • Neophoberinae
  • Acanthacaris
  • Thymopinae
  • Nephropsis

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Crocodylidae
Cuvier, 1807

Genera
  • Mecistops
  • Crocodylus
  • Osteolaemus
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A crocodile is any species belonging to the family Crocodylidae
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Elapidae
Boie, 1827

For sea snakes in mythology and cryptozoology, see Sea serpent.


Sea snakes, or "seasnakes", are venomous elapid snakes that have left the land and adapted to a marine environment.
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Columbidae

Subfamilies

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Pigeons and doves constitute the family Columbidae within the order Columbiformes, which include some 300 species of near passerine birds.
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Varanidae

Genus: Varanus
Merrem, 1820

Species

Many, see text.
Monitor lizards are the family Varanidae
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V. komodoensis

Binomial name
Varanus komodoensis
Ouwens, 1912

Komodo dragon distribution


The Komodo Dragon (Varanus komodoensis
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Asmat may mean:
  • Asmat people
  • Asmat Regency
  • Asmat (term), a Ge'ez word (literally the plural of sim, "name") referring to the names of God and later associated with magic in general.

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