River
Bakoy River
400 km from source to mouth · Mali and Guinea.
Mali and GuineaFlows into Senegal River4th longest in Mali
In numbers
Length
400km
Average flow
370m³/s
Basin
85,000km²
Drop
249m
from 342 m to 93 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
400 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 342 m
- 291 kmBaoulétributary
- 303 kmChutes Billy
- 393 kmBafoulabé26,823 people
- 400 kmSenegal Riverat 93 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River
At the mouth it carries 374 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 6.7 seconds. It drops from 342 m to 93 m, 0.6 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 85,000 km², about the size of AT. 2.3 million people live in it. Highest water: September; lowest: from February to May. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 96% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- BafoulabéLargest city on its banks · 26,823 people
- Kayes Dag Dag Airport (KYS)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 97 km from the city
- On the water15 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Bakoy River, month by month
Highest water: September
Lowest water: from February to May. Best months to visit: from December to January.
From about 60 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,200 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Bakoy River: the basin in numbers
141,174 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 2.3millionpeople live in the basin
- 16/km²people per km²
- 368maverage altitude of the basin
- 910mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 27.0°Caverage air temperature
- 4%protected areas
- 0.3%covered by lakes
- 11km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 8% Forest
- 7% Cropland
- 34% Pasture
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Bakoy River: what you find on the way
- 1Weirs
- 8WaterfallsChutes de Billy and 7 more
- 15Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.5 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Bakoy River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Chutes Billykm 372
Cascadyas is coming soonOpen Cascadyas ↗
Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Monts de Bedama12 km away
From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Senegal River
Senegal1,050 km640 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Baoulé
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Mali500 km370 m³/s0 km awayKarakoro River
Mauritania697 km165 km awayFalémé RiverMauritania400 km480 m³/s188 km awaySankarani RiverMali400 km260 m³/s339 km awayTinkisso RiverGuinea268 km180 m³/s329 km awayMilo RiverGuinea330 km190 m³/s353 km awayGorgol RiverMauritania258 km66 m³/s384 km awayCorubal River
Guinea-Bissau560 km300 m³/s490 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q789056) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Cascadyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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