Cestos River
The Cestos River, also known as Nuon or Nipoué river, 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. It forms the northern third of the international boundary between Liberia and Côte d'Ivoire.
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Liberia Cestos River | |
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| Source | |
| • location | Nimba Range, Guinea |
| Mouth | |
• location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Length | 476 km (296 mi) |
| Basin size | 12,723 km2 (4,912 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | (Period: 1979–2015) 18.35 km3/a (581 m3/s) |
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| River system | Cestos River |
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.
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