Barrakunda Falls

Barrakunda Falls , also Barrakunda Falls or Barra Kunda Falls , are located in the Tambacounda region in the West African state of Senegal . The Gambia leaves the mountainous country here at Barrakunda , coming from Fouta Djallon in Guinea , and enters the broad and flat coastal zone with the Barrakunda Falls rapids . After about eight kilometers downstream, the Gambia reaches the territory of the Gambia .

The Portuguese explorer Diogo Gomes was the first European to sail the Gambia as far as these rapids in 1457.

See also

• List of waterfalls

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rosel Jahn: Gambia. Travel guide with regional studies. With a travel atlas (= Mai's Weltführer. Vol. 29). Mai, Dreieich 1997, ISBN 3-87936-239-4
2. ↑ The Great Discoveries

Web links

• barrakunda falls and back - Gouloumbou, Senegal (English)

Coordinates: 13 ° 32'36 "  N , 13 ° 49'23"  W.

Barrakunda Falls​

Senegal