Little Scarcies
Little Scarcies in the upper reaches of Kaba (Kava) |
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Little Scarcies at Outamba Kilimi National Park |
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Data | ||
location |
Guinea Sierra Leone |
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source | Guinea | |
muzzle |
Atlantic Ocean Coordinates: 8 ° 53 ′ 54 " N , 13 ° 10 ′ 17" W 8 ° 53 ′ 54 " N , 13 ° 10 ′ 17" W |
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Mouth height |
0 m
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Catchment area | 18,955 km² | |
Left tributaries | Pinselli , Mongo , Mabole | |
Right tributaries | Mamou , logo | |
Residents in the catchment area | 926.142 |
The Little Scarcies (historically also Scassos ) is a river in West Africa .
course
It rises in the Mamou region in Guinea and is also called Kaba there . On the southwest edge of the Outamba Kilimi National Park it meets its left tributary Mongo . Shortly before, north of this, the Logo flows as a right tributary into the Little Scarcies. The estuary on the Atlantic is, together with the Great Scarcies , designated as a nature reserve or marine reserve.
Web links
- Map of rivers in Sierra Leone (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maps of the river systems in Sierra Leone with catchment area sizes
- ^ Transboundary River Basins, Status and Trends. United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), January 2016.
- ^ Carl Bernhard Wadström: An Essay on Colonization, Particularly Applied to the Western Coast of Africa, with Some Free Thoughts on Cultivation and Commerce, Darton and Harvey, 1794, p. 237.
- ^ Scarcies River Estuary in Sierra Leone. Protected Planet / IUCN. Retrieved January 24, 2018.