The Escravos River is a river in southern

Nigeria Nigeria ( ), , ig, Naìjíríyà, yo, Nàìjíríà, pcm, Naijá , ff, Naajeeriya, kcg, Naijeriya officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf o ...

. "Escravos" is a

Portuguese Portuguese may refer to: * anything of, from, or related to the country and nation of Portugal ** Portuguese cuisine, traditional foods ** Portuguese language, a Romance language *** Portuguese dialects, variants of the Portuguese language ** Portu ...

word meaning "slaves" and the area was one of the main conduits for slave trade between Nigeria and the United States in the 18th century. The Escravos is a distributary of the

Niger River The Niger River ( ; ) is the main river of West Africa, extending about . Its drainage basin is in area. Its source is in the Guinea Highlands in south-eastern Guinea near the Sierra Leone border. It runs in a crescent shape through ...

, it flows for , ending at the Bight of Benin of the

Gulf of Guinea The Gulf of Guinea is the northeasternmost part of the tropical Atlantic Ocean from Cape Lopez in Gabon, north and west to Cape Palmas in Liberia. The intersection of the Equator and Prime Meridian (zero degrees latitude and longitude) is in ...

where it flows into the Atlantic Ocean.

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, a major US oil company, has its main Nigerian oil production facility at the mouth of the Escravos River.Delta communities decry fresh oil spills from NNPC trunkline
, 2016/10/13, SweetCrudeReports, ''...An oil spill had occurred in these same communities on August 17, this year from a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC,...Gama-Zion community and into the Escravos River...'' This oil terminal pumps approximately .

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Rivers of Nigeria Distributaries of the Niger River {{Nigeria-river-stub