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Konkouré River

303 km from source to mouth · Guinea.

GuineaGuineaFlows into Atlantic Ocean2nd longest in Guinea

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SourceMouth
The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

303km

Average flow

640m³/s

Basin

10,250km²

Drop

548m

from 548 m to 0 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

303 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

548 m0 m
Sourceat 548 m0 km
Atlantic Oceanat 0 m303 km
0100200303 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 548 m
  2. 303 kmAtlantic Oceanat 0 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Guinea

At the mouth it carries 640 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 3.9 seconds. It drops from 548 m to 0 m, 1.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 10,250 km², about the size of LB. 1.1 million people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from January to April. Its dams hold back little of its water (9.1% of a year's flow).

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Where to start

  • DubrékaLargest city on its banks · 182,296 people
  • Ahmed Sékou Touré International Airport (CKY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 26 km from the city
  • On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
  • Kayak and canoe7 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
  • From December to JanuaryThe best months to visit

Konkouré River, month by month

Highest water: from August to September

Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from December to January.

100
26°1 mmJan
68
27°1 mmFeb
68
29°6 mmMar
84
30°40 mmApr
210
29°142 mmMay
540
27°277 mmJun
1,300
26°537 mmJul
2,100
25°677 mmAug
2,200
26°419 mmSep
1,700
27°261 mmOct
820
27°70 mmNov
340
26°7 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 68 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,200 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

Konkouré River: the basin in numbers

16,775 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Lightly regulatedReservoirs can hold 9.1% of a year's flow.
  • 1.1millionpeople live in the basin
  • 67/km²people per km²
  • 498maverage altitude of the basin
  • 2,281mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 25.4°Caverage air temperature
  • 3%protected areas
  • 0.6%covered by lakes
  • 1.8km³held in reservoirs

What covers the basin

  • 29% Forest
  • 4% Cropland
  • 14% Pasture
  • 3% 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

Konkouré River: what you find on the way

  • 3DamsSouapiti Dam, Barrage de Kaléta
  • 4WaterfallsApollo 3 and 3 more
  • 7Rapids
  • 4Ferry piers

From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.

From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Konkouré River: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Konkouré River: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth18 km across

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

Konkouré River in pictures

Fleuve konkouré 3
Pauldirac1926 · CC0
Fleuve konkouré 2
Pauldirac1926 · CC0

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Little Scarcies RiverSierra LeoneSierra Leone262 km370 m³/s129 km awayRokel RiverSierra LeoneSierra Leone386 km430 m³/s177 km awayCorubal RiverGuinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau560 km300 m³/s228 km awayGeba RiverGuinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau545 km130 m³/s265 km awayRio de CanjambariGuinea-BissauGuinea-Bissau69 km26 m³/s327 km awayCasamance RiverSenegalSenegal401 km86 m³/s412 km awayMoa RiverSierra LeoneSierra Leone425 km890 m³/s403 km awayGambia RiverGambiaGambia1,130 km2,000 m³/s471 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q2467572) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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