The Benito is a river in

Equatorial Guinea Equatorial Guinea ( es, Guinea Ecuatorial; french: Guinée équatoriale; pt, Guiné Equatorial), officially the Republic of Equatorial Guinea ( es, link=no, República de Guinea Ecuatorial, french: link=no, République de Guinée équatoria ...

. It is known locally as the Mbini River, and, at least as it flows in its westerly part through the

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, as the Uoro River. The river rises in

Gabon Gabon (; ; snq, Ngabu), officially the Gabonese Republic (french: République gabonaise), is a country on the west coast of Central Africa. Located on the equator, it is bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north ...

and crosses into Equatorial Guinea where it divides the country roughly along the middle, running east to west. At the mouth to the

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lies the town of

Mbini Mbini is a town in Río Muni, Equatorial Guinea, lying at the mouth of the Benito River. ''Mbini'' is the Ndowe This article is about the demographics, demographic features of the population of Equatorial Guinea, including population density, E ...

, as well as large

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stands that extend inland. Only this portion of the river is navigable. The river is used to float logs for

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operations.''The geography of modern Africa'' By William Adams Hance, p. 291 (on Google Books

The

cichlid Cichlids are fish from the family Cichlidae in the order Cichliformes. Cichlids were traditionally classed in a suborder, the Labroidei, along with the wrasses ( Labridae), in the order Perciformes, but molecular studies have contradicted this ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

Benitochromis ''Benitochromis'' is a small genus of cichlid fishes that are endemic to riverine and lake habitats in Middle Africa (Cameroon and Equatorial Guinea, including the island of Bioko). Several of these species were originally assigned to the genu ...

'' takes the first part of its name from the Benito River.

References

Rivers of Equatorial Guinea Rivers of Gabon International rivers of Africa {{Gabon-river-stub