Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- river
- Country
- Mali
- Located in
- Mopti Region
- Continent
- Africa
- Image
- Bani 4.83783W 13.39309N.jpg
- Length
- 430
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- Commons category
- Bani River
- mouth of the watercourse
- Niger River
- watershed area
- 101000
- discharge
- 513
- tributary
- Bagoé River
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Encyclopedic overview
The Bani River system. A satellite photo of the Bani. The town of San lies to the south of the river near the centre of the image. The Talo dam is near the edge on the left hand side.
The Bani River is the principal tributary of the Niger River in Mali. The river is formed from the confluence of the Baoulé [fr] and Bagoé rivers some 160 km (99 mi) east of Bamako and it merges with the Niger near Mopti. Its length is about 1,100 km (680 mi).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bani River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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