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Singou

311 km from source to mouth · Burkina Faso.

Burkina FasoBurkina FasoFlows into Oti River

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The river and every tributary in its basin, drawn from RiverATLAS (CC BY 4.0).

In numbers

Length

311km

Average flow

54m³/s

Basin

20,462km²

Drop

241m

from 389 m to 148 m

Country

1

The journey

From source to mouth

311 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.

389 m148 m
Sourceat 389 m0 km
Oti Riverat 148 m311 km
0100200311 km
  1. 0 kmSourceat 389 m
  2. 11 kmToukountouna16,330 people
  3. 311 kmOti Riverat 148 m

Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.

River in Burkina Faso

At the mouth it carries 54 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 47 seconds. It drops from 389 m to 148 m, 0.8 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 20,462 km², about the size of SI. 535,000 people live in it. Highest water: from August to September; lowest: from December to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.

Where to start

  • ToukountounaLargest city on its banks · 16,330 people
  • From November to JanuaryThe best months to visit

Singou, month by month

Highest water: from August to September

Lowest water: from December to March. Best months to visit: from November to January.

10
27°0 mmJan
10
29°2 mmFeb
11
31°10 mmMar
14
32°36 mmApr
32
30°87 mmMay
66
28°132 mmJun
120
26°188 mmJul
180
26°236 mmAug
200
26°192 mmSep
140
28°42 mmOct
62
28°3 mmNov
14
27°1 mmDec
Water (estimated flow)Air (average) Rain (mm)Best months

From about 10 m³/s in the lowest month to 200 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

Singou: the basin in numbers

20,462 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.

Free-flowingDams upstream can hold only 0.0% of a year's flow: the river still keeps its natural rhythm.
  • 535,000people live in the basin
  • 26/km²people per km²
  • 250maverage altitude of the basin
  • 889mmof rain a year (basin average)
  • 28.1°Caverage air temperature
  • 55%protected areas

What covers the basin

  • 34% Forest
  • 11% Cropland
  • 9% Pasture

RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.

Cross-checked with our atlases

Singou 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.

  • 4mountains at the sourcePeakyas

Mountains at the source (4)

Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas

  1. Tanakongoutansa13 km away538m
  2. Tataba8.8 km away524m
  3. Tankassika12 km away497m
  4. Oussobou Ditan11 km away460m

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From space

The source and the mouth, seen from orbit

Singou: satellite view of the source
The source14 km across
Singou: satellite view of the mouth
The mouth20 km across

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

Singou in pictures

Singou MS 10616
Marco Schmidt [1] · CC BY-SA 3.0

Tributaries

Where it flows, and what flows into it

It flows into

Oti RiverGhanaGhana900 km430 m³/s

In the same basin

Volta RiverGhanaGhana1,500 km1,300 m³/sWhite VoltaGhanaGhana640 km250 m³/sBlack VoltaGhanaGhana1,352 km260 m³/sRed VoltaGhanaGhana313 km23 m³/sKawaTogoTogo72 km46 m³/s

Nearby

Rivers nearby

Red VoltaGhanaGhana313 km23 m³/s188 km awayMékrou RiverNigerNiger410 km29 m³/s237 km awayKawaTogoTogo72 km46 m³/s168 km awayTapoa RiverNigerNiger260 km8.9 m³/s224 km awaySota RiverBeninBenin250 km46 m³/s271 km awayWhite VoltaGhanaGhana640 km250 m³/s355 km awayBlack VoltaGhanaGhana1,352 km260 m³/s355 km awaySirba RiverNigerNiger350 km780 m³/s299 km away

Where these numbers come from

Name, length, placesWikidata (Q2289301) · CC0
Course, profile, basinRiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point given by Wikidata
FlowWaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Climate along the riverWorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0
Towns, bridges, damsWikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
Along the river© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
ImagesEOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons
Our other atlasesPeakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST

Every source and licence is on the data sources page.

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