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The Rokel River (also Seli) is the largest river in the Republic of Sierra Leone in West Africa. It rises in the 900 metres (3,000 ft) high interior plateau of the Loma Mountains, flows southwest about 240 miles (390 km) through hill ranges and, together with a smaller, parallel stream called Port Loko Creek, feeds into the Rokel estuary before entering the Atlantic Ocean. Its basin measures 10,622 square kilometres (4,101 sq mi) in size, with the drainage divided by the Gbengbe and Kabala hills and the Sula Mountains. The Rokel drops Template:Convert15 at the Bumbuna waterfalls. Sierra Leone's capital city of Freetown lies at the entrance to the Sierra Leone River, about 25 miles (40 km) downstream from the mouth of the Rokel and Port at Pepel.

Iron ore and alluvial gold mining began in the late 1920s and early 1930s.

Sierra Leone's equivalent of the British knighthood is called "Order of the Rokel."

References

1. ^ Brebbia, C. A.; Popov, V. (1 April 2013). Food and Environment II: The Quest for a Sustainable Future. WIT Press. pp. 45–. ISBN 978-1-84564-703-2.

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