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Daru

Field	Value
official_name	Daru
settlement_type	Town
image_map	Daru Island (Landsat).jpg
mapsize	300px
pushpin_map	Papua New Guinea
pushpin_label_position	bottom
pushpin_map_caption	Location in Papua New Guinea
pushpin_mapsize	300
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Papua New Guinea
subdivision_type1	Province
subdivision_name1	Western Province
subdivision_type2	District
subdivision_name2	South Fly District
subdivision_type3	LLG
subdivision_name3	Daru Urban
established_title	Established
established_date	1884
population_footnotes
population_note	2011
population_total	15,142
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	AEST
utc_offset1	+10
coordinates
elevation_m	3
blank_name	Climate
blank_info	Am
blank1_name_sec1	Location
blank1_info_sec1	440 km from Port Moresby by air

Daru is the capital of the Western Province of Papua New Guinea and a former Catholic bishopric. Daru town falls under the jurisdiction of Daru Urban LLG.

The township is entirely located on an island that goes by the same name, which is located near the mouth of the Fly River on the western side of the Gulf, just north of Torres Strait and Far North Queensland in Australia. Daru had a recorded population of 15,142 as of the 2011 census.

History

Galician-Portuguese explorer, Luis Vaez de Torres, in the 1600s visited the location of the current town.

Population

The language of the Daru people is Kiwai (South-West Coastal Kiwai), also spoken on neighbouring mainland villages (the name Kiwai comes from Kiwai Island some 60 km north-east in the Fly River delta). However, the Kiwai settlement of Daru is fairly recent. The original inhabitants, the Hiamo, were Western-Central Torres Strait Islanders originally from Yama in the Torres Strait. With the Kiwai colonisations, the main group of Hiamo people moved to Southern Torres Strait and settled the (Inner) Muralag group.

Religion

Its St. Louis de Montfort Co-Cathedral is the 'second see' (and former 'full' cathedral) of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Daru-Kiunga (renamed in 1987, originally Apostolic Prefecture of Daru since 1957, promoted diocese in 1966).

Transport

It is served by Daru Airport, a small airstrip.

Climate

Daru has a tropical monsoon climate (Köppen Am) with heavy rainfall most of the year and low rainfall from July to October.

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References

"Census Figures by Wards - Southern Region". National Population & Housing Census 2011.
(23 May 2013). "Japan Steps Up Interest in Papua New Guinea's Gas Riches". Wall Street Journal.
"Daru – the town the good life left behind".
http://www.gcatholic.org/churches/oceania/2929.htm GCatholic, with Google satellite map

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