River
Cavalla River
515 km from source to mouth · Ivory Coast, Guinea and Liberia.
Ivory Coast, Guinea and LiberiaFlows into Gulf of Guinea4th longest in Ivory Coast
In numbers
Length
515km
Average flow
580m³/s
Basin
30,225km²
Drop
515m
from 515 m to 0 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
515 km of river and 2 stops on the way: 2 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmMount Richard-Molardat 515 m
- 124 kmFloleu9,962 people
- 493 kmGnato12,803 people
- 515 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 West Africa
At the mouth it carries 575 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 4.3 seconds. It drops from 515 m to 0 m, 1.0 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 30,225 km², about the size of LS. 997,000 people live in it. Highest water: June and from September to October; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- GnatoLargest city on its banks · 12,803 people
- San Pedro Airport (SPY)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 104 km from the cityCar hire at ABJ airport (Abidjan)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water9 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- Kayak and canoe10 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to JanuaryThe best months to visit
Cavalla River, month by month
Highest water: June and from September to October
Lowest water: from January to March. Best months to visit: from December to January.
From about 260 m³/s in the lowest month to 1,900 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
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The basin
Cavalla River: the basin in numbers
29,623 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 997,000people live in the basin
- 34/km²people per km²
- 227maverage altitude of the basin
- 2,047mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 25.7°Caverage air temperature
- 26%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 51% Forest
- 6% Cropland
- 1% Pasture
- 1% 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
Cavalla River: what you find on the way
- 6WaterfallsChutes Seledio and 5 more
- 10RapidsKohokogri Rapids, Grognouplou Rapids, Toubonan Rapids and 7 more
- 8Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Cavalla 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.
11mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (11)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Mount Richard-Molard11 km away1,752m
- Mount Nuon-Fa4.6 km away1,285m
- Colline de Tuo6.4 km away
- Mount Gletohn6.3 km away
- Mount Maatohn14 km away
- Mount Nino12 km away
- Mountain Yueliton15 km away
- Mount Buletohn11 km away
3 more on PeakyasOpen Peakyas ↗
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
Cavalla River in pictures
Nearby
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Where these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q627944) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth 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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