Little Scarcies

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Little Scarcies
in the upper reaches of Kaba (Kava)
Little Scarcies at Outamba Kilimi National Park

Little Scarcies at Outamba Kilimi National Park

Data
location Guinea-aGuinea Guinea Sierra Leone
Sierra LeoneSierra Leone 
source Guinea
muzzle Atlantic Ocean Coordinates: 8 ° 53 ′ 54 "  N , 13 ° 10 ′ 17"  W 8 ° 53 ′ 54 "  N , 13 ° 10 ′ 17"  W
Mouth height m

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

Individual evidence

  1. Maps of the river systems in Sierra Leone with catchment area sizes
  2. ^ Transboundary River Basins, Status and Trends. United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), January 2016.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ Scarcies River Estuary in Sierra Leone. Protected Planet / IUCN. Retrieved January 24, 2018.