Komo (river)

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Komo
Como, Rio Ncomo
Komo (fleuve) .png
Data
location GabonGabon Gabon Equatorial Guinea
Equatorial GuineaEquatorial Guinea 
River system Komo
origin in the south of Equatorial Guinea
1 ° 14 ′ 0 ″  N , 11 ° 45 ′ 0 ″  E
Source height about  700  m
muzzle to Bonny Bay Coordinates: 0 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E 0 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 9 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  E
Mouth height m
Height difference about 700 m
Bottom slope about 2.7 ‰
length 260 km
Catchment area 5000 km²
Discharge at gauge Andok Foula (1642500)
A Eo : 1700 km²
MNQ 1959–1971
MQ 1959–1971
Mq 1959–1971
MHQ 1959–1971
23 m³ / s
63.4 m³ / s
37.3 l / (s km²)
260 m³ / s
Right tributaries Mbei
Big cities Libreville
Mouth of the Komo

Mouth of the Komo

The Komo is a river in Gabon and Equatorial Guinea .

course

The river has its source in southern Equatorial Guinea, in the province of Centro Sur . It flows in a south-southwest direction until it bends west at the place Kango, shortly before the beginning of its estuary (also called the Gabon estuary) and flows into the Bay of Bonny about 80 kilometers further, approximately at the level of the equator .

Individual evidence

  1. FAO Irrigation in Africa in figures - AQUASTAT Survey - 2005
  2. Fleuves et rivieres du Gabon diversite des Regimes Hydrologiques
  3. ^ Search term Gabon in the German colonial dictionary