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Pegunungan Kumawa
Pegunungan Kumawa — the Kumawa Mountains — is a forested, limestone range on the south-western tip of the Bomberai Peninsula, in Kaimana Regency, West Papua. Its highest summit reaches about 1,654 m, but for most visitors the real story is not the peak itself: it is one of New Guinea's least-explored mountain wildernesses, rising almost straight out of the coastal lowlands and cloaked in unbroken rainforest. Much of the range is karst — rainwater has dissolved the limestone into caverns, sinkholes and few surface streams despite the heavy tropical rainfall. That same rugged, hard-to-reach terrain is why the Kumawa Nature Reserve protects a large slice of it, and why the mountains were still unknown to bird scientists only a few decades ago. This is a destination for serious nature travellers and expeditions, not for casual sightseeing.