Foja Mountains

The Foja Mountains west of the port city of Jayapura, the capital of Papua province.

The Foja Mountains (Foja Range, Foya Mountains) (Indonesian: Pegunungan Foja) are located just north of the Mamberamo river basin in Papua, Indonesia. The mountains rise to 2,193 metres (7,195 ft), and have 3,000 square kilometers of old growth tropical rainforest in the interior part of the range. The Foja forest tract covers 9,712 square kilometers and is the largest tropical forest without roads in the Asia Pacific region.[1]

The Foja Range languages are spoken within the mountain range and nearby areas.[2]

  1. ^ "Lost Worlds Of West Papua Reveal More Surprises". Retrieved 2007-12-19.
  2. ^ "New Guinea World". Archived from the original on 2020-10-16. Retrieved 2020-01-30.

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