River
Corubal River
560 km from source to mouth · Guinea-Bissau and Guinea.
Guinea-Bissau and GuineaFlows into Geba River1st longest in Guinea-Bissau
In numbers
Length
560km
Average flow
300m³/s
Basin
26,000km²
Drop
160m
from 168 m to 8 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
560 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 168 m
- 103 kmGaoual7,461 people
- 560 kmGeba Riverat 8 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in West Africa
At the mouth it carries 305 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 8.2 seconds. It drops from 168 m to 8 m, 0.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 26,000 km², about the size of RW. 696,000 people live in it. Highest water: September; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- GaoualLargest city on its banks · 7,461 people
- Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 246 km from the city
- On the water8 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Corubal River, month by month
Highest water: September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from December to January.
From about 48 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,000 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
Corubal River: the basin in numbers
22,718 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 696,000people live in the basin
- 31/km²people per km²
- 268maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,748mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.1°Caverage air temperature
- 11%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 63% Forest
- 10% Cropland
- 39% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
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
Corubal River: what you find on the way
- 9Weirs
- 18Waterfalls
- 8Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Corubal 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
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.
Photos
Corubal River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Geba RiverGuinea-Bissau545 km130 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Guinea-Bissau69 km26 m³/s100 km awayGambia River
Gambia1,130 km2,000 m³/s244 km awayCasamance River
Senegal401 km86 m³/s197 km awayKonkouré RiverGuinea303 km640 m³/s228 km awaySaloum RiverSenegal378 km13 m³/s326 km awayLittle Scarcies River
Sierra Leone262 km370 m³/s357 km awayRokel RiverSierra Leone386 km430 m³/s405 km awayFalémé River
Mauritania400 km480 m³/s439 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2411947) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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