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Map of Côte d'Ivoire showing the Bandama River in the center of the country The Bandama River is the longest river in Ivory Coast with a length of some 800 kilometers. The south-flowing river is fed by the Marahoué, Solomougou, Kan and Nzi rivers and empties into the Tagba Lagoon and the Gulf of Guinea.
The Bandama flows through Lake Kossou, a large artificial lake created in 1973 by the construction of the Kossou Dam at Kossou.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bandama River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.