Boumba River is a river in the

South Cameroon Plateau The South Cameroon Plateau or Southern Cameroon Plateau (french: Plateau Sud-Camerounais) is the dominant geographical feature of Cameroon. The plateau lies south of the Adamawa Plateau and southeast of the Cameroon Range. It slopes south and west ...

of southeast

Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...

Geography

The river rises in the Abong-Mbang region. The Boumba is almost 530 km long, and has a catchment of 27.400 km² PDF about the hydrology of Cameroon (French)

Hydrometrie

The flow of the river was measured at Biwala in m³/s

Ecology

The river is a

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of the

Dja River The Dja River (also known as the Ngoko River) is a stream in west-central Africa. It forms part of Cameroon–Republic of Congo border and has a course of roughly . Rising southeast of the southeastern Cameroon town of Abong-Mbang, the Dja Faun ...

and is adjacent to the

Boumba Bek National Park Boumba Bek National Park is a national park in extreme southeastern Cameroon, located in its East Province. History The park was never logged; according to the World Wildlife Fund's scientific advisor in the region, Paul Robinson Ngnegueu, "poac ...

, which is located between the Boumba and the Bek River. The forested area around the river is a diverse ecosystem. Logging is an industry in the area. The remote region is home to the Baka. Communities in the area engage in subsistence farming, hunting, fishing and gathering. The area is also used illegal commercial bushmeat hunters and traders and trophy hunters. Parrots and

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are also smuggled through the area.

Trivia

* The area is believed to be a possible origin of the

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/ref> * The legendary Mokèlé-mbèmbé was reportedly sighted on the river in 2000.

References

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