River
Singou
311 km from source to mouth · Burkina Faso.
Burkina FasoFlows into Oti River
In numbers
Length
311km
Average flow
54m³/s
Basin
20,462km²
Drop
241m
from 389 m to 148 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
311 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 389 m
- 11 kmToukountouna16,330 people
- 311 kmOti Riverat 148 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Burkina Faso
At the mouth it carries 54 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 47 seconds. It drops from 389 m to 148 m, 0.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,462 km², about the size of SI. 535,000 people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- ToukountounaLargest city on its banks · 16,330 people
- From November to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Singou, month by month
Highest water: from August to September
Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: from November to January.
From about 10 m³/s in the lowest month to 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.
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The basin
Singou: the basin in numbers
20,462 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 535,000people live in the basin
- 26/km²people per km²
- 250maverage altitude of the basin
- 889mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 28.1°Caverage air temperature
- 55%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 34% Forest
- 11% Cropland
- 9% 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.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Singou 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.
4mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (4)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Tanakongoutansa13 km away538m
- Tataba8.8 km away524m
- Tankassika12 km away497m
- Oussobou Ditan11 km away460m
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
Singou in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Oti River
Ghana900 km430 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
Ghana313 km23 m³/s188 km awayMékrou River
Niger410 km29 m³/s237 km awayKawa
Togo72 km46 m³/s168 km awayTapoa RiverNiger260 km8.9 m³/s224 km awaySota River
Benin250 km46 m³/s271 km awayWhite VoltaGhana640 km250 m³/s355 km awayBlack VoltaGhana1,352 km260 m³/s355 km awaySirba RiverNiger350 km780 m³/s299 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2289301) · 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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