Geba River
Template:Short description Script error: No such module "Distinguish". Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Script error: No such module "Infobox".Template:Template otherScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The Geba (French: Rivière Geba, Portuguese: Rio Geba) is a river of West Africa that rises in the northernmost area of Guinea in the Fouta Djallon highlands, passes through southern Senegal, and reaches the Atlantic Ocean in Guinea-Bissau. It is about Script error: No such module "convert". in total length.[1] It is a lowland river, with a large flow during the rainy season (from April to October).
In Senegal, the river is locally known as the Kayanga.
Its tributary the Colufe River joins the Geba at Bafatá. After passing by Geba town and Bambadinca, the river broadens into a wide estuary below Xime (where it is joined by the Corubal River), with a total width of about Script error: No such module "convert". at Bissau.[1] The estuary widens further as the river flows into the Atlantic, forming the Bissagos Islands archipelago.
The Geba River, along with the Corubal River, drains the Bafatá Plateau. It also drains the Gabú Plain, along with the Farim River (also known as the Cacheu River), and their tributaries.[2]
It has long been an important trade route connecting into the interior; it is accessible to 2,000-ton ships some Script error: No such module "convert". in, and shallow-draft vessels even further.
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Bibliography
- Salif Diop, La côte ouest-africaine. Du Saloum (Sénégal) à la Mellacorée (Rép. de Guinée), ORSTOM, Paris, 1990, p. 380
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