River
Benito River
365 km from source to mouth · Equatorial Guinea and Gabon.
Equatorial Guinea and GabonFlows into Atlantic Ocean2nd longest in Equatorial Guinea
In numbers
Length
365km
Average flow
510m³/s
Basin
13,559km²
Drop
656m
from 656 m to 0 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
365 km of river and 24 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 656 m
- 172 kmCascada Anvam
- 172 kmCascada Nfolo
- 173 kmCascada Miveñ
- 178 kmDjibloho Dam
- 179 kmCascadas Asoc-Bisón
- 180 kmCascadas de Yibulot
- 183 kmGran Cascada Yibulob
- 190 kmCascada Miván
- 207 kmCascada Asoc-Dum
- 209 kmCascadas Asoc-dum
- 251 kmCascada Ngong
- 285 kmCascada Cam
- 287 kmCascada Ngom (busay sa Gineang Ekwatoryal, lat 1,70, long 10,12)
- 289 kmCascada Binyini
- 291 kmCascada Tutubo
- 297 kmCascada Ayabigumbe
- 302 kmCascada Bibeñ
- 309 kmCascada Mandoc
- 318 kmCascadas Bonsoc
- 324 kmCascada Evoarncara
- 324 kmCascada Ncoromba
- 327 kmCascada Mvom
- 329 kmCascada Sambo
- 331 kmCascada Ngom (vattenfall i Ekvatorialguinea, lat 1,53, long 9,85)
- 365 kmAtlantic Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Equatorial Guinea and Gabon
At the mouth it carries 510 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.9 seconds. It drops from 656 m to 0 m, 1.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 13,559 km², about the size of BS. 234,000 people live in it. Highest water: November; lowest: February and August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MbiniLargest city on its banks · 4,062 people
- Bata International Airport (BSG)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 42 km from the cityCar hire at LBV airport (Libreville)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From July to AugustThe best months to visit
Benito River, month by month
Highest water: November
Lowest water: February and August. Best months to visit: from July to August.
From about 210 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,100 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
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The basin
Benito River: the basin in numbers
13,559 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 234,000people live in the basin
- 17/km²people per km²
- 574maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,118mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 22.9°Caverage air temperature
- 17%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 82% Forest
- 5% Cropland
- 1% 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
Benito River: what you find on the way
- 1WaterfallsYobé falls
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Benito 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.
23waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (23)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cascada Tutubokm 288
- Cascada Mandockm 306
- Cascadas Bonsockm 315
- Cascada Evoarncarakm 322
- Cascada Ncorombakm 322
- Cascada Mvomkm 325
- Cascada Sambokm 326
- Cascada Ngom (vattenfall i Ekvatorialguinea, lat 1,53, long 9,85)km 329
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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.
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Equatorial Guinea460 km720 m³/s88 km awayUtamboni RiverEquatorial Guinea141 km340 m³/s65 km awaySanaga
Cameroon918 km2,100 m³/s220 km awayNyong RiverCameroon640 km450 m³/s190 km awayOgooué RiverGabon850 km4,800 m³/s298 km awayWouri RiverCameroon160 km620 m³/s278 km awayIvindo RiverGabon500 km780 m³/s340 km awayMbam RiverCameroon425 km710 m³/s363 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2634342) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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