Orokaiva

Orokaiva country extends across the plains and valleys north of the Owen Stanley Range in eastern New Guinea. Communities distinguished river people, coastal people and inland people, and cultivated taro, yams and other crops on the fertile ground around Mount Lamington. Clans traced descent to shared ancestors and were linked through marriage and residence, while disputes and alliances could change the composition and location of settlements.

The later city of Popondetta lies here.