River
Faro River
305 km from source to mouth · Nigeria and Cameroon.
Nigeria and CameroonFlows into Sanaga8th longest in Nigeria
In numbers
Length
305km
Average flow
360m³/s
Basin
29,000km²
Drop
710m
from 874 m to 164 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
305 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 874 m
- 305 kmSanagaat 164 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Nigeria and Cameroon
At the mouth it carries 360 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 6.9 seconds. It drops from 874 m to 164 m, 2.3 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 29,000 km², about the size of AL. 414,000 people live in it. Highest water: from August to 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
- FuforeA town on its banks
- Yola Airport (YOL)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 24 km from the cityCar hire at ABV airport (Abuja)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Faro River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 55 m³/s in the lowest month to 740 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
Faro River: the basin in numbers
27,600 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 414,000people live in the basin
- 15/km²people per km²
- 665maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,421mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.6°Caverage air temperature
- 16%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 67% Forest
- 39% Cropland
- 6% 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.
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
Faro River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
SanagaCameroon918 km2,100 m³/sIn the same basin
Nigeria4,180 km8,600 m³/sBenue RiverNigeria1,370 km3,200 m³/sBani River
Mali430 km510 m³/sSankarani RiverMali400 km260 m³/sKaduna RiverNigeria550 km640 m³/sMékrou River
Niger410 km29 m³/sTinkisso River
Guinea268 km180 m³/sSokoto RiverNigeria600 km290 m³/sGongola RiverNigeria531 km210 m³/sSota River
Benin250 km46 m³/s
ChadWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q16918124) · 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 |
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