The Likouala-Mossaka (or Likouala River) is a river in the
Republic of the Congo
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It is a tributary of the
Congo River
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, which it enters to the east of the town of
Mossaka
Mossaka is a town located in the Cuvette Department, Republic of the Congo.
Located on the banks of the Congo River to the west of the mouth of the Likouala-Mossaka
The Likouala-Mossaka (or Likouala River) is a river in the Republic of the Co ...
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Location
The Likouala-Mossaka is a right tributary of the Congo into which it flows at Mossaka about from its source.
Its basin adjoins that of the
Sangha River to the north and the
Ogooué River in Gabon to the west.
To the south it adjoins the basin of the
Alima, which has hardly any left tributaries.
The lower
Sangha, the
Likouala-aux-Herbes and 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.
Hydrology
Between 1951 and 1993 annual rainfall in the Likouala-Mossaka basin was and average discharge at the Makoua gauging station was .
The basin above this point covered .
European exploration
Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza explored the upper part of the Likouala-Mossaka, the Licona, in August 1878.
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entered its mouth in 1884.
Giacomo Savorgnan di Brazzà
Jacques Savorgnan di Brazza (or Giacomo Savorgnan de Brazza e Cergneu; 14 December 1859 – 29 February 1888) was an Italian naturalist, mountaineer and explorer, younger brother of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza.
Early years
Giacomo Savorgnan di Bra ...
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 ''Compagnie Française du Haut-Congo'' (CFHC) for its operation.
In 1908 there were four administrative posts in a territory of about .
Seventy-two villages had to pay 44,648 francs in taxes.
Until 1909 the French administration of the Likouala-Mossaka basin was very light, and little had been done to develop its resources.
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Rivers of the Republic of the Congo