Senegal River
| Origin of the watercourse | Bafing River, Bakoy River  |
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| Mouth of the watercourse | Atlantic Ocean |
| Impounded by | Diama Dam |
| Drainage basin | Senegal River basin |
| Basin country | Guinea |
| Country | Mauritania, Senegal, Mali |
| Coordinate location | 13°48′52″N 10°49′49″W, 15°58′0″N 16°30′31″W |
De Senegal River (Serer: "Seen O Gal" anaa "Senegal" - compound of de Serer term "Seen" anaa "Sene" anaa "Sen" (from Roog Seen, Supreme Deity insyd Serer religion) den "O Gal" (wey dey mean "body of water")); Wolof: Dexug Senegaal, Arabic: نهر السنغال, romanized: Nahr as-Siniġāl, French: Fleuve Sénégal) be a 1086-kilometre-long (675 mi) river insyd West Africa; much of ein length dey mark part of de border between Senegal den Mauritania. E get a drainage basin of 270000 km2 (100000 sq mi), a mean flow of 680 m3/s (24,000 cu ft/s), den an annual discharge of 21.5 km3 (5.2 cu mi). Important tributaries be de Falémé River, Karakoro River, den de Gorgol River. De river dey divide into two branches once e pass Kaédi. De left branch, dem call de Doué, dey run parallel to de main river to de north. After 200 km (120 mi) de two branches rejoin a few kilometers downstream of Podor.
Insyd 1972 Mali, Mauritania den Senegal found de Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal (OMVS) to manage de river basin. Guinea join insyd 2005. As of 2012, na only very limited use be made of de river for de transportation of goods den passengers. Na de OMVS look at de feasibility of creating a navigable channel 55 m (180 ft) in width between de small town of Ambidédi insyd Mali den Saint-Louis, a distance of 905 km (562 mi).E go give landlocked Mali a direct route to de Atlantic Ocean.
De aquatic fauna insyd de Senegal River basin be closely associated plus dat of de Gambia River basin, wey de two be usually combined under a single ecoregion dem know as de Senegal-Gambia Catchments. Only three species of frogs den one fish be endemic to dis ecoregion.
De river get two large dams along ein course, de Manantali Dam insyd Mali den de Maka-Diama Dam downstream on de Mauritania-Senegal border. In between be de Félou Hydroelectric Plant, dem build insyd 1927, buh dem replace insyd 2014. De construction of de Gouina Hydroelectric Plant upstream of Felou at Gouina Falls begin insyd 2013.
History
[edit | edit source]De area be previously occupied by de Serer people, wey dey follow dema religious den ethnic persecution by Islamic forces insyd de 11th century, result in de Serer exodus to de south.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
References
[edit | edit source]- ↑ Villalón, Leonardo A. (2006). Islamic Society and State Power in Senegal: Disciples and Citizens in Fatick. Cambridge University Press. pp. 54–55. ISBN 978-0-521-03232-2., Quote: "Serer oral tradition recounts the group's origins in the Senegal River valley, where it was part of, or closely related to, the same group as the ancestors of today's Tukulor."
- ↑ Galvan, Dennis Charles, The State Must Be Our Master of Fire: How Peasants Craft Culturally Sustainable Development in Senegal, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004, p. 51
- ↑ Berg, Elizabeth; Wan, Ruth; and Lau, Ruth (2009). Senegal. Marshall Cavendish. ISBN 9780761444817, p. 63
- ↑ Page, Willie F., Encyclopedia of African history and culture: African kingdoms (500 to 1500), pp. 209, 676. Vol.2, Facts on File (2001), ISBN 0-8160-4472-4
- ↑ Streissguth, Thomas, "Senegal in Pictures, Visual Geography", Second Series, p. 23, Twenty-First Century Books (2009), ISBN 1-57505-951-7
- ↑ Oliver, Roland Anthony; & Fage, J. D.,; "Journal of African history", Volume 10, p. 367. Cambridge University Press (1969)
- ↑ Mwakikagile, Godfrey, "Ethnic Diversity and Integration in The Gambia: The Land, The People and The Culture," (2010), p. 11, ISBN 9987-9322-2-3
Read further
[edit | edit source]- Betz, R. L. (2007). The Mapping of Africa: a cartobibliography of printed maps of the African continent to 1700. Hes & de Graaf. ISBN 978-90-6194-489-8.
- Davidson, Basil (1998). West Africa Before the Colonial Era: a history to 1850. London: Longman. ISBN 0-582-31852-1.
- De la Roncière, Charles (1925). La découverte de l'Afrique au moyen âge. 2 volumes. Cairo: Société Royale de Géographie d'Égypte.
External links
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- The Hydrology of Senegal (PowerPoint presentation)
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