River
Komoé River
900 km from source to mouth · Ivory Coast and Burkina Faso.
Ivory Coast and Burkina FasoFlows into Gulf of Guinea2nd longest in Ivory Coast
In numbers
Length
900km
Average flow
430m³/s
Basin
74,000km²
Drop
457m
from 457 m to 0 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
900 km of river and 9 stops on the way: 7 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 457 m
- 33 kmBanfora117,452 people
- 150 kmLérabatributary
- 672 kmAniassué12,088 people
- 688 kmAmian8,958 people
- 752 kmBéttié10,960 people
- 821 kmAlépé11,725 people
- 844 kmBonoua49,434 people
- 858 kmGrand-Bassam96,797 people
- 859 kmÉbrié Lagoon514 km²
- 900 kmGulf of Guineaat 0 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 430 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.8 seconds. It drops from 457 m to 0 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 74,000 km², about the size of SL. 3.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from June to September; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BanforaLargest city on its banks · 117,452 people
- Bobo Dioulasso Airport (BOY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 74 km from the cityCar hire at ABJ airport (Abidjan)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe29 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to January and AugustThe best months to visit
Komoé River, month by month
Highest water: from June to September
Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: from November to January and August.
From about 74 m³/s in the lowest month to 480 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
Komoé River: the basin in numbers
83,109 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 44/km²people per km²
- 259maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,173mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.9°Caverage air temperature
- 28%protected areas
- 0.1%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 32% Forest
- 13% Cropland
- 33% 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
Komoé River: what you find on the way
- 4WaterfallsChutes du Korobs and 3 more
- 29RapidsKoko Rapids and 28 more
- 6Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Komoé 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.
1lake on its wayLakeyas
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Ébrié Lagoonkm 1,062 · 20 m deep514km²
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Falaise de Banfora2.1 km away518m
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
Komoé River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (3)
Also: Léraba, Yakanzuoba, Manzan
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Ivory Coast300 km130 m³/s57 km awayTano RiverIvory Coast400 km150 m³/s90 km awayBandama RiverIvory Coast1,050 km230 m³/s139 km awaySassandra RiverIvory Coast560 km540 m³/s264 km awayCavalla RiverIvory Coast515 km580 m³/s432 km awayVolta River
Ghana1,500 km1,300 m³/s489 km awayWhite VoltaGhana640 km250 m³/s490 km awayBlack VoltaGhana1,352 km260 m³/s490 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q615662) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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