The Ogooué (or Ogowe), also known as the Nazareth River, some 1,200 km (750 mi) long, is the principal river of Gabon in west-central Africa and the fourth...
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Ndjolé (category Populated places in Moyen-Ogooué Province)
Abanga-Bigne Department in Gabon, lying northeast of Lambaréné on the Ogooué River, the N2 road and the Trans-Gabon Railway. It is known as a base for logging...
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Haut-Ogooué is the southeasternmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It is named after the Ogooué River. It covers an area of 36,547 km2 (14,111 sq mi). The...
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The Ivindo River (French: Rivière Ivindo) is the most important tributary of the Ogooué River, which flows in Gabon. The Ivindo River flows from northeast...
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Department is in the very center of the country. It gets its name from two rivers, the Ogooué and the Ivindo. This province, containing thousands of square kilometres...
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– north-northeast Ogooué-Ivindo Province – east Ogooué-Lolo Province – southeast, at a quadripoint Ngounié Province – south Ogooué-Maritime Province –...
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{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) Modeling the Ogooué river discharge based on multi-missions altimetry data. AGU Chapman Conference...
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expense in the Paris Missionary Society's mission at Lambaréné on the Ogooué river, in what is now Gabon, in Africa (then a French colony). He refused to...
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Yorubaland (section Rivers)
Niger River into Benin and Togo. In the northern section, Yorubaland begins in the suburbs just west of Lokoja and continues unbroken up to the Ogooué River...
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in central Africa. They primarily live on the South bank of the upper Ogooué River, in the vicinity of Lastoursville (originally an Adouma village), and...
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of Gabon primarily living in the forests and grasslands south of the Ogooué River and west of its tributary the N'Gounié. According to the oral tradition...
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Port-Gentil (category Ogooué River)
The settlement was established on Mandji Island in the delta of the Ogooué River by the French, who signed a treaty with the Orungu people in 1873. It...
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national de la Lopé) is a national park in central Gabon. Bordered by the Ogooué River to the north and the Chaillu Massif to the south, the park takes up roughly...
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The Zadié river (French: Rivière Zadie) is a tributary of the Ivindo river in northeastern Gabon. Lerique Jacques. 1983. Hydrographie-Hydrologie. in Geographie...
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River Nyong River Lokundje River Campo River (Ntem River) Ogooué River (Gabon) Ivindo River (Gabon) Aïna River (Ayina River) Lélé River Congo River (Republic...
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Cytochrome-b sequences suggest that mandrill populations north and south of the Ogooué River split 800,000 years ago and belong to distinct haplogroups. This divergence...
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This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth. It includes river systems over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in length. There are many factors, such as the...
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central. Their largest presence is in the southern regions, up to the Ogooué River estuary where anthropologists refer them also as "Fang proper". They...
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Leben." These words came to Albert Schweitzer on a boat trip on the Ogooué River in French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon), while searching for a universal...
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Lastoursville (category Populated places in Ogooué-Lolo Province)
Lastoursville or Mandji is a city in east-central Gabon, lying on the Ogooué River, the Trans-Gabon Railway and the N3 road. It was founded as a slave depot...
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site was nearly 200 miles (14 days by raft) upstream from the mouth of the Ogooué at Port Gentil (Cape Lopez) (and so accessible to external communications)...
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Nyong Rivers in Cameroon, and the Ogooué River in Gabon, as well as the lower and middle Congo River basin, including Ubangui and Kasaï Rivers. It has...
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List of drainage basins by area (redirect from List of River Basins)
Madeira river basin at Rivers Network. Amur river basin at Rivers Network Lower, Middle and Upper Euphrates river basin at Rivers Network Dnieper river : Watersheds...
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fish in the family Polypteridae, is found in the central Congo River basin and Ogooué River in Africa. It is a long, slender fish that grows to a maximum...
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the last and second most important tributary of the Ogooué River, the first being the Ivindo River. It initially flows down from the Chaillu Mountains...
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Cape Lopez (category Ogooué River)
northernmost point of a low, wooded island between two mouths of the Ogooué River. There is an oil terminal at the southeast side of the cape, and the...
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1,600 km of perennially navigable waterways, including 310 km on the Ogooué River. There are three international airports: Libreville, Port-Gentil, and...
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With his friend Antoine-Alfred Marche he explored the course of the Ogooué River in Gabon between 1872 and 1874. Alphonse Louis Henri Victor Du Pont de...
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the Ogooué River five times, at Franceville, at Ndjolé, and three times around Booué, also at Lastoursville, where one girder bridge crosses the river to...
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spent his last years, the small island of Missanga in the middle of the Ogooué River near Ndjolé, was known as the 'dry guillotine' due to the death rate...
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