River
Dja River
523 km from source to mouth · Republic of the Congo and Cameroon.
Republic of the Congo and CameroonFlows into Ngoko4th longest in Republic of the Congo
In numbers
Length
523km
Average flow
800m³/s
Basin
80,000km²
Drop
359m
from 693 m to 334 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
523 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 693 m
- 613 kmChutes de Nki
- 926 kmNgokoat 334 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 800 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.1 seconds. It drops from 693 m to 334 m, 0.7 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 80,000 km², about the size of CZ. 439,000 people live in it. Highest water: from October to November; lowest: from January to February. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- OuessoLargest city on its banks · 40,667 people
- On the water15 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe1 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to February and JulyThe best months to visit
Dja River, month by month
Highest water: from October to November
Lowest water: from January to February. Best months to visit: from December to February and July.
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.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Dja River: the basin in numbers
74,854 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 439,000people live in the basin
- 6/km²people per km²
- 601maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,607mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 23.7°Caverage air temperature
- 18%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 93% Forest
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
Dja River: what you find on the way
- 9WaterfallsChutes de Mpouho, Chutes de Saa, Chutes de Nki and 6 more
- 1Rapids
- 2Boat ramps
- 13Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Dja 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
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Chutes de Nkikm 613
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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.
Photos
Dja River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Ombéla River
In the same basin
Angola4,700 km41,800 m³/sKasai RiverRepublic of the Congo2,272 km12,000 m³/sUbangi River
Central African Republic1,060 km5,900 m³/sKwango River
DR Congo1,770 km2,700 m³/sUeleDR Congo1,210 km1,500 m³/sLomami RiverDR Congo1,280 km3,000 m³/sSanghaRepublic of the Congo785 km2,500 m³/sEbola RiverDR Congo250 km320 m³/sMbomou RiverCentral African Republic800 km1,300 m³/sLuvua RiverDR Congo350 km600 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Central African Republic554 km320 m³/s207 km awayUbangi RiverCentral African Republic1,060 km5,900 m³/s303 km awayLulonga RiverDR Congo180 km1,800 m³/s281 km awaySanghaRepublic of the Congo785 km2,500 m³/s334 km awayTshuapa RiverDR Congo1,300 km3,600 m³/s302 km awayIvindo River
Gabon500 km780 m³/s477 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1231996) · 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 — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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