List of rivers of Ivory Coast

[1] The Cavally River has its headwaters in the Nimba Mountains in Guinea and forms the border between Ivory Coast and Liberia for over half its length.

[1] It is joined by the Bagbé, Bafing, Nzo, Lobo, and Davo rivers and winds through shifting sandbars to form a narrow estuary, which is navigable for about eighty kilometers inland from the port of Sassandra.

[1] This large river system drains most of central Ivory Coast before it flows into the Tagba Lagoon opposite Grand-Lahou.

[1] It flows within a narrow 700-kilometer basin and receives the Kongo, and Iringou tributaries before winding among the coastal sandbars and emptying into the Ebrié Lagoon near Grand-Bassam.

[1] These projects created reservoirs, now referred to as lakes bearing the names of the dams- -Buyo on the Sassandra, Kossou and Taabo on the Bandama, and Ayamé on the small Bia River in the southeast corner of the country.

Map of Ivory Coast showing the main rivers and tributeries.