Bafing River
| Mouth of the watercourse | Senegal River  |
|---|---|
| Impounded by | Manantali Dam |
| Drainage basin | Senegal River basin |
| Country | Guinea, Mali |
| Coordinate location | 13°48′43″N 10°49′42″W, 10°23′44″N 12°8′2″W |
De Bafing River (Manding for "black river", French: Rivière Bafing)[1] be de upper course den largest tributary of de Senegal River wey dey run dey pass Guinea den Mali wey e be about 350 miles (560 km) long.
Course
[edit | edit source]De Fonta Djallon insyd Guinea be de source of de Bafing River,[2] 30 miles (48 km) north of Mamou.[1] E dey flow for about 350 miles (560 km)[3] den dey converge plus de Bakoy River to join de Senegal River insyd western Africa.[4][5] De Bafing River be de largest tributary of de Senegal River, den dey contribute almost half of ein total water volume.[6] De Bafing dey form part of de international border between Guinea den Mali.[7]
Ecology
[edit | edit source]Der fi be a significant chimpanzee population insyd de area east of de Bafing River.[8] De blue-headed bee-eater (merops muelleri) sanso be sighted at de forest on de river south of de Manding Mountains.[9]
Gallery
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Lake Manantali plus de Manantali Dam den de Bafing River
A hanging bridge over de Bafing (dem publish 1800)
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References
[edit | edit source]- 1 2 Mohamed Saliou Camara; Thomas O'Toole; Janice E. Baker (7 November 2013). Historical Dictionary of Guinea. Scarecrow Press. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-8108-7969-0.
- ↑ M. van der Knaap; Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (1994). Status of Fish Stocks and Fisheries of Thirteen Medium-sized African Reservoirs. Food & Agriculture Org. p. 19. ISBN 978-92-5-103581-8.
- ↑ Rand McNally and Company (1980). Rand McNally Encyclopedia of World Rivers. Rand McNally. p. 9.
- ↑ Caractéristiques physiques du fleuve Sénégal (in French), Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal, archived from the original on 16 July 2013, retrieved 22 June 2026
{{citation}}: More than one of|accessdate=and|access-date=specified (help); More than one of|archivedate=and|archive-date=specified (help); More than one of|archiveurl=and|archive-url=specified (help). - ↑ Maïga, Mahamadou (1995), Le bassin du fleuve Sénégal: de la Traite négrière au développement sous-régional autocentré (in French), L'Harmattan, p. 14 footnotes 4, 5.
- ↑ Development Anthropology Network: Bulletin of the Institute for Development Anthropology. The Institute for Development Anthropology. 1982. p. 10.
- ↑ Brownlie, Ian (1979). African Boundaries: A Legal and Diplomatic Encyclopedia. Institute for International Affairs, Hurst and Co. pp. 310–13.
- ↑ Rebecca Kormos (2003). West African Chimpanzees: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan (PDF). IUCN. p. 48.
- ↑ C. Hilary Fry (30 September 2010). The Bee-Eaters. Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-4081-3687-4.
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