River
Logone River
1,000 km from source to mouth · Chad, Cameroon and Central African Republic.
Chad, Cameroon and Central African RepublicFlows into Chari River2nd longest in Chad
In numbers
Length
1,000km
Average flow
490m³/s
Basin
78,000km²
Drop
788m
from 1,080 m to 292 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
1,000 km of river and 13 stops on the way: 8 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 1,080 m
- 0 kmLac Bini0.8 km²
- 240 kmTouboro28,987 people
- 267 kmVinatributary
- 278 kmBaïbokoum13,217 people
- 377 kmNgouri10,487 people
- 381 kmLac Wey3.9 km²
- 388 kmMoundou196,124 people
- 499 kmPendé Rivertributary
- 544 kmLaï27,071 people
- 696 kmBongor63,699 people
- 770 kmLake Maga116 km²
- 948 kmKousséri139,024 people
- 951 kmN'Djamena1,359,526 people
- 1,000 kmChari Riverat 292 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Central Africa
At the mouth it carries 492 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 5.1 seconds. It drops from 1,080 m to 292 m, 0.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 78,000 km², about the size of PA. 3.6 million 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
- N'DjamenaLargest city on its banks · 1,359,526 people
- N'Djamena International Airport (NDJ)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 3 km from the city
- On the water6 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Logone River, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from December to January.
From about 76 m³/s in the lowest month to 670 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
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The basin
Logone River: the basin in numbers
88,321 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 3.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 41/km²people per km²
- 588maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,128mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.0°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
- 0.1km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 42% Forest
- 19% 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
Logone River: what you find on the way
- 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
Logone 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.
3lakes on its wayLakeyas
2mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Lakes and reservoirs (3)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lac Binikm 00.8km²
- Lac Weykm 3903.9km²
- Lake Magakm 789116km²
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Mountains at the source (2)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Ngao Hora11 km away
- Ngao Doufoui8.4 km away
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Chari RiverCameroon1,400 km1,200 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Pendé River, Vina
NigeriaWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q645191) · 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 | Lakeyas, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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