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Between 1951 and 1993 annual rainfall in the
Likouala-Mossaka basin was 1,689 millimetres (66.5 in) and average discharge at the Makoua gauging station was 216 cubic metres per second (7,600 cu ft/s). The basin above this point covered 14,100 square kilometres (5,400 sq mi).
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Likouala-Mossaka rivers flow through the Congolese Cuvette, a huge depression with an equatorial climate. The soil of this region is sandy or clayey quaternary fluvial alluvia. Vegetation is dense, humid, shady forest that partly floods during the high water season.
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descended the river when he returned from his exploration of the north in
December 1885. In 1899 the whole Likouala-Mossaka basin was granted to the Tréchot brothers who had created the
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Likouala-Mossaka is a right tributary of the Congo into which it flows at Mossaka about 650 kilometres (400 mi) from its source. Its basin adjoins that of the
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101:Congo River
391:2021-10-20
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133:16°47′57″E
460:Chiloango
220:Hydrology
130:1°13′37″S
515:Category
191:Location
75:Location
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336:Sources
185:Mossaka
169:Swahili
113:Mossaka
80:Country
500:Ubangi
495:Sangha
490:Nyanga
475:Kouyou
442:Rivers
430:Rivers
211:, the
209:Sangha
465:Congo
455:Alima
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205:Alima
96:Mouth
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