Konkouré River

[3] Vessels of up to 3 m (9.8 ft) draft can navigate upstream to Konkouré; beyond that point, there are rapids.

[7] The estuary, along with part of Sangareya Bay and the mouths of the Konkouré and Bouramaya rivers, has been designated an Important Bird Area (IBA) by BirdLife International because it supports significant populations of western reef egrets, pied avocets and common redshanks.

[8] In 1999, the Garafiri Dam was opened at a cost of $221 million; it can produce 75 megawatts (101,000 hp) of electricity.

[1] Construction of a 240-megawatt (320,000 hp) hydroelectric dam on the river near Kaleta, the Kaleta Hydropower Plant, was completed in June 2015 and commissioned on 28 September at a cost of $526 million;[9] the 1,545-metre-long (5,069 ft) dam lies about 120 kilometres (75 mi)[10] or 85 miles (137 km)[9] north of the capital city of Conakry.

[10] In 2015, the central government contracted with Chinese firms to begin building a 550-megawatt (740,000 hp) dam (the Souapiti Hydropower Station), near Souapiti, about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) further upstream,[10] which would almost double Guinea's power generation output at an estimated cost of $2 billion.