River
Nyanga River
600 km from source to mouth · Gabon and Republic of the Congo.
Gabon and Republic of the CongoFlows into Atlantic Ocean2nd longest in Gabon
In numbers
Length
600km
Average flow
610m³/s
Basin
20,060km²
Drop
677m
from 682 m to 5 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
600 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 682 m
- 167 kmChutes Mougounda
- 444 kmTchibanga36,108 people
- 600 kmAtlantic Oceanat 5 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 606 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.1 seconds. It drops from 682 m to 5 m, 1.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,060 km², about the size of SI. 90,000 people live in it. Highest water: from December to January and from March to April; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- TchibangaLargest city on its banks · 36,108 people
- Antonio Agostinho-Neto International Airport (PNR)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 232 km from the cityCar hire at POG airport (Port Gentil)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water2 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe20 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Nyanga River, month by month
Highest water: from December to January and from March to April
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 180 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,100 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
Nyanga River: the basin in numbers
25,075 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 90,000people live in the basin
- 4/km²people per km²
- 314maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,687mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.5°Caverage air temperature
- 19%protected areas
- 0.2%covered by lakes
What covers the basin
- 84% Forest
- 1% Cropland
- 4% 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.
Along the river
Nyanga River: what you find on the way
- 3WaterfallsRapides de Nouvélou, Chutes de Mougounda, Chutes de Dimani
- 20RapidsRapides de Mafoubou, Rapides Ilintaima, Rapides d'Igotchi and 17 more
- 2Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Nyanga 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
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Chutes Mougoundakm 152
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Mountains at the source (1)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mont Nguengue10 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.
Photos
Nyanga River in pictures
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Republic of the Congo560 km860 m³/s229 km awayOgooué RiverGabon850 km4,800 m³/s268 km awayRiver Congo
Angola4,700 km41,800 m³/s419 km awayChiluango RiverAngola160 km120 m³/s320 km awayIvindo RiverGabon500 km780 m³/s379 km awayUtamboni River
Equatorial Guinea141 km340 m³/s448 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q3086588) · 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, Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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