River
Sassandra River
560 km from source to mouth · Ivory Coast.
Ivory CoastFlows into Gulf of Guinea3rd longest in Ivory Coast
In numbers
Length
560km
Average flow
540m³/s
Basin
75,087km²
Drop
297m
from 297 m to 0 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
560 km of river and 25 stops on the way: 22 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 297 m
- 23 kmBorotou-Koro15,293 people
- 163 kmKanébly9,547 people
- 168 kmVaou12,331 people
- 196 kmGbéhigbly7,285 people
- 196 kmPiébly Un6,413 people
- 249 kmGréikro5,007 people
- 267 kmGuéssabo17,944 people
- 328 kmLake Buyo509 km²
- 328 kmBuyo Dam
- 346 kmGribouo6,760 people
- 347 kmBelleville23,595 people
- 352 kmDapéoua13,945 people
- 355 kmLoboville16,006 people
- 409 kmAmaragui5,178 people
- 416 kmchutes de la Nawa
- 419 kmSoubré131,181 people
- 420 kmPéhiri3,152 people
- 458 kmButubré I13,344 people
- 493 kmZabré7,807 people
- 498 kmGaouroubré6,713 people
- 502 kmGréguibré4,776 people
- 511 kmMédon4,495 people
- 518 kmInahiri5,500 people
- 534 kmGaoulou15,794 people
- 543 kmSassandra34,492 people
- 560 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 Ivory Coast
At the mouth it carries 541 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.6 seconds. It drops from 297 m to 0 m, 0.5 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 75,087 km², about the size of PA. 4.7 million people live in it. Highest water: from June to July and from September to October; lowest: from January to March. It is heavily dammed: reservoirs can hold 57% of a year's flow.
Where to start
- SoubréLargest city on its banks · 131,181 people
- San Pedro Airport (SPY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 116 km from the cityCar hire at ABJ airport (Abidjan)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water4 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe17 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Sassandra River, month by month
Highest water: from June to July and from September to October
Lowest water: from January to March. Best months to visit: from December to January.
From about 150 m³/s in the lowest month to 900 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
Sassandra River: the basin in numbers
75,333 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 4.7millionpeople live in the basin
- 63/km²people per km²
- 346maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,473mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.3°Caverage air temperature
- 21%protected areas
- 0.7%covered by lakes
- 8.3km³held in reservoirs
What covers the basin
- 37% Forest
- 23% Cropland
- 21% Pasture
- 2% 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
Sassandra River: what you find on the way
- 16RapidsTayaboui Rapids, Dioantre Rapids, Piéhon Rapids and 13 more
- 1Canoe put-ins
- 4Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.3 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Sassandra 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
1lake on its wayLakeyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- chutes de la Nawakm 433
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Lakes and reservoirs (1)
Lakes it flows through, by Lakeyas
- Lake Buyokm 341509km²
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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
Sassandra River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Lobo
Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q1535828) · 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 | Cascadyas, Lakeyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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