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Ogooué River

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Ogooué River

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Also known as Ogooue River, Ogowe, Ogowe River

river

Key facts

Country
Gabon , Republic of the Congo
Location
Kengue , Republic of the Congo
Elevation
840 m (2,760 ft)
Mouth
Atlantic Ocean
Coordinates
1°01′38″S 8°53′05″E / 1.0272°S 8.8848°E / -1.0272; 8.8848
Length
1,200 km (750 mi)
Basin size
225,217.5 km (86,957.0 mi )
Average
(Period: 1971–2000)5,148.05 m /s (181,802 cu ft/s)
Minimum
1,950 m /s (69,000 cu ft/s)
Maximum
7,340 m /s (259,000 cu ft/s) (13,500 m /s (480,000 cu ft/s)
Progression
Atlantic Ocean
River system
Ogooué River
Left
Letili , Lebombi , Lekedi , Leyou , Lolo , Offoue , Ngounié
Right
Mpassa , Léconi , Sebe , Lassio , Dilo , Ivindo , Nké , Okano , Abanga

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Encyclopedic overview

The Ogooué (or Ogowe), also known as the Nazareth River, some 1,200 km (750 mi) long, is the principal river of Gabon in west-central Africa and the fourth largest river in Africa by volume of discharge, trailing only the Congo, Kasai and Niger. Its watershed drains nearly the entire country of Gabon, with some tributaries reaching into the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea.

Geography

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ogooué River” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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