Stream
Kadeï
554 km from source to mouth · Central African Republic and Cameroon.
Central African Republic and CameroonFlows into Sangha3rd longest in Central African Republic
In numbers
Length
554km
Average flow
320m³/s
Basin
24,000km²
Drop
679m
from 1,060 m to 381 m
Countries
2
The journey
From source to mouth
554 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 kmSourceat 1,060 m
- 305 kmCarnot129,032 people
- 538 kmNola31,923 people
- 554 kmSanghaat 381 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Cameroon
At the mouth it carries 321 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 7.8 seconds. It drops from 1,060 m to 381 m, 1.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 24,000 km², about the size of DJ. 295,000 people live in it. Highest water: from September to October; lowest: from January to April. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- CarnotLargest city on its banks · 129,032 people
- On the water12 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From November to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Kadeï, month by month
Highest water: from September to October
Lowest water: from January to April. Best months to visit: from November to February.
From about 110 m³/s in the lowest month to 670 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
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Kadeï: the basin in numbers
28,018 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 295,000people live in the basin
- 11/km²people per km²
- 723maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,451mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.2°Caverage air temperature
- 2%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 47% Forest
- 3% Cropland
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
Kadeï: what you find on the way
- 12Ferry piers
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.1 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
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.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
Sangha
Republic of the Congo785 km2,500 m³/sTributaries (1)
Also: Doumé
In the same basin
Angola4,700 km41,800 m³/sKasai RiverRepublic of the Congo2,272 km12,000 m³/sUbangi RiverCentral African Republic1,060 km5,900 m³/sKwango River
DR Congo1,770 km2,700 m³/sUeleDR Congo1,210 km1,500 m³/sLomami RiverDR Congo1,280 km3,000 m³/sEbola RiverDR Congo250 km320 m³/sMbomou RiverCentral African Republic800 km1,300 m³/sLuvua RiverDR Congo350 km600 m³/sSankuru RiverDR Congo1,200 km1,500 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2591927) · 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 |
Every source and licence is on the data sources page.
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