River
Rio de Canjambari
69 km from source to mouth · Guinea-Bissau.
Guinea-Bissau3rd longest in Guinea-Bissau
In numbers
Length
69km
Average flow
26m³/s
Basin
2,177km²
Drop
18m
from 22 m to 4 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
69 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 22 m
- 67 kmFarim10,207 people
- 69 kmMouthat 4 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Guinea-Bissau
At the mouth it carries 26 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 95 seconds. Its basin covers 2,177 km², about the size of KM. 81,000 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
- FarimLargest city on its banks · 10,207 people
- Osvaldo Vieira International Airport (OXB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 81 km from the city
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Rio de Canjambari, 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 2.9 m³/s in the lowest month to 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
Rio de Canjambari: the basin in numbers
2,177 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 81,000people live in the basin
- 37/km²people per km²
- 41maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,269mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 26.9°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 85% Forest
- 18% Cropland
- 61% 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
Rio de Canjambari: what you find on the way
- 1Boat ramps
- 2Ferry piersFarim
- 1MarinasFarim
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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.
Nearby
Rivers nearby
Guinea-Bissau545 km130 m³/s63 km awayGambia River
Gambia1,130 km2,000 m³/s146 km awayCorubal RiverGuinea-Bissau560 km300 m³/s100 km awayCasamance River
Senegal401 km86 m³/s124 km awaySaloum RiverSenegal378 km13 m³/s227 km awayKonkouré River
Guinea303 km640 m³/s327 km awaySenegal RiverSenegal1,050 km640 m³/s421 km awayFalémé River
Mauritania400 km480 m³/s409 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q4784960) · 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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