| Cestos | |
|---|---|
 Liberia Cestos River | |
| Location | |
| Countries | |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Nimba Range, Guinea |
| Mouth | |
| • location | Atlantic Ocean |
| Length | 476 km (296 mi) |
| Basin size | 12,723 km (4,912 sq mi) |
| Discharge | |
| • location | Near mouth |
| • average | (Period: 1979–2015) 18.35 km/a (581 m/s) |
| Basin features | |
| River system | 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 Ivory Coast border, then south-west through tracts of Liberian rain forest to empty into a bay on the Atlantic Ocean where the town of Cestos is located. The pygmy hippopotamus is known to inhabit lands along stretches of the river. It forms the northern third of the international boundary between Liberia and Ivory Coast.
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.
References
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- "Liberia Waterways". The Liberian Connection. Archived from the original on 5 February 2012. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link) - Ramsar Sites Information Service. "Wetlands International Ramsar Sites Information Service: Liberia" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2008-08-02.
- "Rivercess Falls to Allied Forces". Monrovia Daily News, 1993-05-10, 1/6.
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