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Auob
Auob (Auobrivier), an ephemeral "fossil" river of the southern Kalahari rising in Namibia's Anas Mountains, joining the Nossob near Twee Rivieren; name means bitter water; its aquifer supplies the Stampriet system.
Awash
Awash, river and basin in Ethiopia; also Awash River Basin. A roughly 1,200 km endorheic river ending in salt lakes in the Danakil Plain; Ethiopia's most intensively irrigated basin, home to Koka Dam, Wonji and Metehara sugar estates, severe water pollution, and major flood management works.
Bafing
Bafing River, main headwater tributary of the Senegal River, rises in the Fouta Djallon, Guinea, and joins the Bakoye at Bafoulabé, Mali; it supplies about half the Senegal's flow and carries the Manantali Dam.
Baoulé
Baoulé names several West African rivers, chiefly a Niger-basin tributary rising in Côte d'Ivoire that forms the Bani with the Bagoé, a Bakoye tributary in Mali, plus the Baoulé people and V Baoulé region of Côte d'Ivoire.
Benue
Benue River, major West African river rising in Cameroon, flowing southwest to join the Niger at Lokoja, Nigeria; namesake of Benue State, the 'Food Basket of the Nation'; supports fishing, irrigation, and transport but suffers flooding from Cameroon's Lagdo dam.
Bight Drainages
Bight Drainages is a West African freshwater ecoregion of coastal rivers draining into the Gulf of Guinea, spanning Ghana, Togo, Benin, and Nigeria, with about 246 recorded fish species.
Black Volta
The Black Volta, or Mouhoun, is a permanent West African river rising in Burkina Faso, flowing about 1,350 km into Lake Volta in Ghana; its basin spans four countries.
Blue Nile
Blue Nile (Abay): major Nile tributary rising at Lake Tana, Ethiopia, joining the White Nile at Khartoum; supplies about 57% of Nile flow at the Sudan-Egypt border and hosts the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
Cape Fold
The Cape Fold is a freshwater ecoregion at South Africa's southern tip, whose coastal rivers hold the highest concentration of threatened freshwater fish in southern Africa.
Cataracts of the Nile
Cataracts of the Nile: six rocky rapids stretches between Aswan, Egypt and Khartoum, Sudan, formed by granite outcrops, obstructing navigation and marking ancient Egypt's southern border with Nubia.
Congo River
The Congo River, also known as the Zaire River, is the second largest river in the world by drainage area and discharge, behind only the Amazon.
Cuando
Cuando (Kwando) River: a 1,206 km south-central African river rising in the Angolan Highlands, flowing through Namibia and Botswana as the Linyanti and Chobe to join the Zambezi at Mambova Falls; basin over 156,000 km² shared by four countries.
Cuanza (landform)
The Cuanza River, also spelled Kwanza or Kuanza, is a river in Angola and the country's longest, rising on the Bié Plateau and reaching the Atlantic south of Luanda.
Cuito (landform)
Cuito (Kuito, Kwito) is a 920 km perennial river in southeastern Angola, the eastern headwater tributary of the Okavango River, flowing over deep Kalahari sands and providing steady dry-season baseflow to the Okavango Delta.
Dja
Dja (Ngoko River), Central African river rising near Abong-Mbang, Cameroon, joining the Sangha; nearly encircles the Dja Faunal Reserve, a 5,260 km2 UNESCO World Heritage Site established in 1950.
Genale
Genale (Ganale, Genale Dorya) is a river rising in Ethiopia's Mendebo Mountains, flowing southeast to Dolo on the Somalia border where it joins the Dawa to form the Juba; it drains Ethiopia's third-largest basin, about 171,000 km², with 5.8–6 billion m³ annual flow and the 254 MW Genale Dawa III dam.
Great Ruaha
Great Ruaha River, in southwestern Tanzania, a 750 km tributary of the Rufiji feeding the Mtera and Kidatu dams, which generate roughly half of Tanzania's electricity; perennial until it first dried in December 1993 due to upstream Usangu rice irrigation.
Kadeï
Kadeï (Kadéï, Kadey): river of southeastern Cameroon and the Central African Republic, about 550 km long, joining the Mambéré at Nola to form the Sangha River of the Congo basin; drains the Kadey department around Batouri and suffers gold-mining pollution.
Kagera
The Kagera, also called the Akagera, is an East African river and the most remote headstream of the Nile, and the largest inflow to Lake Victoria.
Kasai (landform)
Kasai (Cassai), a 2,153 km river of Angola and DR Congo, the chief southern tributary of the Congo River; basin 897,500 km², discharge about 8,246 m³/s, floods January to May, navigable over 1,500 miles.
Konkouré
Konkouré: river and mangrove estuary in Guinea whose delta is Ramsar Site no. 575 (designated 18 November 1992, 90,000 ha), also IBA GN013 and a Key Biodiversity Area, with tide-dominated hydrodynamics and a Garafiri dam 130 km upstream.
Kotto
The Kotto is a river of the Central African Republic, about 730 km long, draining the country's eastern half before joining the Mbomou to form the Ubangi.
Kunene River
Kunene River, also spelled Cunene, is a perennial river in southwestern Africa that originates in central Angola and flows to the Atlantic, supplying water and hydropower to both countries.
Kwango (landform)
Kwango River, also called Cuango or Lucuali, a transboundary Angolan-DR Congo river and largest left-bank tributary of the Kasai in the Congo basin, about 1,100 km long, diamond-bearing, with 18 geology-controlled knickpoints.
Kwilu (landform)
Kwilu (Cuilo) is a 965 km river rising in the Angolan highlands and flowing northwest through DRC's Kwilu province to Bandundu, joining the Kwango; average flow 3,299 m3/s, navigable from Kikwit to Bandundu.
Limpopo River
Limpopo River, transboundary river of southern Africa (basin 412,938 km²) shared by Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, draining to the Indian Ocean; irrigation-dominated water use, LIMCOM governance, recurring floods and droughts.
Logone
Logone River, Central Africa; tributary of the Chari, rising in Cameroon (Mbéré), joining the Chari at N'Djamena; 550 km, 73,700 km² basin, Yaérés floodplain, Maga dam, major Lake Chad inflow.
Lomami (landform)
Lomami River, a major left-bank tributary of the Congo River in the DR Congo, flowing south to north roughly parallel to the Congo; known for its narrow linear basin, biogeographic barrier role, and Lomami National Park.
Lower Congo
Lower Congo: the ~350 km lower course of the Congo River from Pool Malebo to the Atlantic, dropping 280 m through rapids; also two FEOW freshwater ecoregions and the offshore Lower Congo sedimentary basin, noted for endemic, convergently evolved fish.
Lower Zambezi
Lower Zambezi: the 593 km Zambezi reach below Cahora Bassa gorge, a freshwater ecoregion with delta, and Zambia's Lower Zambezi National Park, a water-based safari and elephant conservation landscape.