Cestos | |
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Location | |
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Physical characteristics | |
Source | |
• location | Nimba Range, Guinea |
Mouth | |
• location | Atlantic Ocean |
Length | 476 km (296 mi)[1] |
Basin size | 12,723 km2 (4,912 sq mi)[2] |
Discharge | |
• location | Near mouth |
• average | (Period: 1979–2015) 18.35 km3/a (581 m3/s)[2] |
Basin features | |
River system | Cestos River |
The Cestos River, also known as Nuon or Nipoué river,[3] is a Liberian river that rises in the Nimba Range of Guinea and flows south along the Côte d'Ivoire border, then southwest through tracks of Liberian rain forest to empty into a bay on the Atlantic Ocean where the city River Cess is located. The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) is known to inhabit lands along stretches of the river.[4] It forms the northern third of the international boundary between Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire.
During the First Liberian Civil War, the portion of the river near the city of Cestos was a leading food and mineral extraction region for the National Patriotic Front of Liberia.[5]
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