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(Redirected from Mayo-Kebbi) This article is about the river named Mayo Kébbi. For the former prefecture of Chad, see Mayo-Kébbi Prefecture.
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River in Chad, Cameroon
Mayo Kébbi
Catchment of the Bénoué River
Location
Countries
  • Chad
  • Cameroon
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
 • locationin the Bénoué River
Basin features
River systemNiger River
Tributaries 
 • leftMayo Louti, Mayo Oulu

The Mayo Kébbi is a river in Central and West Africa. The river rises in Chad, then flows west into the Bénoué River. Mayo-Kébbi Prefecture in Chad is named for it. The Mayo Kébbi is the major outlet for Lake Fianga, shared between Cameroon and Chad.

In the past, the Mayo Kébbi served as the outlet of the paleolake Mega-Chad. The presence of African manatees in the inflows of Lake Chad is evidence of this, since the manatee is otherwise only in rivers connected to the Atlantic Ocean (i.e. it is not possible that it evolved separately in an enclosed Chad Basin). The grand scale of the Mayo Kébbi river course is also evidence of earlier overflow from Mega-Chad; the upstream catchment of today is far too small to have dug such a large channel.

Pollution

According to research carried out in 2017, the Mayo Kébbi river is being polluted by heavy metals such as: Cu, Cd, Pb, Fe, Mn, As, Zn, Ni and Cr and some sediments are being dropped in the river of which some are very toxic to the lives of the aquatic animals.

References

  1. "Mayo-Kebbi Est, Chad Deforestation Rates & Statistics | GFW".
  2. "Mayo-Kebbi Est Region 2023: Best Places to Visit - Tripadvisor".
  3. Leblanc et al. (2006). "Reconstruction of megalake Chad using shuttle radar topographic mission data". Palaeogeography, palaeoclimatology, palaeoecology 239, pp. 16–27 ISSN 0031-0182 1872-616X
  4. "Mayo-Kebbi Ouest Region: All You Must Know Before You Go (2024) - Tripadvisor".
  5. "Figure 1. Map showing the location of Mayo-Kebbi Ouest region (Provided".
  6. Tchakounté, Jacqueline; Eglinger, Aurélien; Toteu, Sadrak Félix; Zeh, Armin; Nkoumbou, Charles; Mvondo-Ondoa, Joseph; Penaye, Joseph; de Wit, Martin; Barbey, Pierre (2017-09-01). "The Adamawa-Yadé domain, a piece of Archaean crust in the Neoproterozoic Central African Orogenic belt (Bafia area, Cameroon)". Precambrian Research. 299: 210–229. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2017.07.001. ISSN 0301-9268.
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