Cocobeach is a town in northwestern

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 ...

, lying on the south bank of the

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. It is the capital of the

Noya Department Noya is a department of Estuaire Province in western Gabon. The capital lies at Cocobeach Cocobeach is a town in northwestern Gabon, lying on the south bank of the Muni River. It is the capital of the Noya Department. It has a beach and is t ...

. It has a

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and is the main

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for

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sailing to

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across the river and the border. The town is very small, containing just a fishing village, a small market and a number of adjacent

es. It is one of the major travel destinations in the region owing to the Crystal Mountains inland from the town, which contain some of the oldest rainforests in Gabon. These were able to largely escape the drying effect of glacial periods of the

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due to the persistent fog from the Benguela Current providing moisture during the dry season. Mairie de Cocobeach au Gabon

Climate

Like a good portion of Gabon, Cocobeach has a

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(

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''Am'') with a long wet season from September or October to May and a short dry season due to the cold, foggy Beneguela current during the southern hemisphere winter. Compared to more southerly parts of Gabon, Cocobeach is somewhat wetter, with around ten to fifteen percent more rainfall than Libreville and a

dry season The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year. The te ...

usually several weeks shorter. Although no reliable climate data exist, it is often thought that annual rainfall further north may reach as high as .

References

{{Authority control Populated places in Estuaire Province Equatorial Guinea–Gabon border crossings