Stream
Campo River
460 km from source to mouth · Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and Cameroon.
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and CameroonFlows into Atlantic Ocean1st longest in Equatorial Guinea
In numbers
Length
460km
Average flow
720m³/s
Basin
31,000km²
Drop
597m
from 597 m to 0 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
460 km of river and 5 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 597 m
- 73 kmMinvoul4,469 people
- 397 kmCascada Dum
- 399 kmCascada Bicón
- 430 kmCascada Melong
- 432 kmRápido Yengüe
- 460 kmAtlantic Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
Watercourse in Cameroon, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea
At the mouth it carries 716 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.5 seconds. It drops from 597 m to 0 m, 1.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 31,000 km², about the size of BE. 443,000 people live in it. Highest water: from October to November; lowest: from January to February and August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- MinvoulLargest city on its banks · 4,469 people
- Oyem Airport (OYE)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 91 km from the city
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to February and from July to AugustThe best months to visit
Campo River, month by month
Highest water: from October to November
Lowest water: from January to February and August. Best months to visit: from December to February and from July to August.
From about 280 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,800 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.
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The basin
Campo River: the basin in numbers
30,962 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 443,000people live in the basin
- 14/km²people per km²
- 590maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,825mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.6°Caverage air temperature
- 12%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 80% Forest
- 3% Cropland
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
Campo River: what you find on the way
- 10WaterfallsChutes Memvé élé, Chutes de Dipikar and 8 more
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Campo 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.
4waterfalls on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (4)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Cascada Dumkm 360
- Cascada Bicónkm 361
- Cascada Melongkm 390
- Rápido Yengüekm 391
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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
Cameroon640 km450 m³/s102 km awaySanagaCameroon918 km2,100 m³/s135 km awayBenito RiverEquatorial Guinea365 km510 m³/s88 km awayWouri RiverCameroon160 km620 m³/s192 km awayUtamboni RiverEquatorial Guinea141 km340 m³/s149 km awayMbam RiverCameroon425 km710 m³/s280 km awayCross River
Nigeria489 km170 m³/s325 km awayOgooué RiverGabon850 km4,800 m³/s386 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3086717) · 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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