The Komadugu Gana River or Misau River is a river in the

Chad Basin The Chad Basin is the largest endorheic basin in Africa, centered on Lake Chad. It has no outlet to the sea and contains large areas of semi-arid desert and savanna. The drainage basin is roughly coterminous with the sedimentary basin of the sam ...

in northeastern Nigeria that joins the

Yobe River The Yobe River, also known as the Komadougou Yobe or the Komadougou-Yobe (french: Komadougou Yobé), is a river in West Africa that flows into Lake Chad through Nigeria and Niger. Its tributaries include the Hadejia River, the Jama'are River ...

Damasak Damasak is the head town of the Mobbar Local Government Area, in the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno. It is located near the confluence of the Yobe River and Komadugu Gana River,Mortimore, MichaelAdapting to Drought: Farmers, Famines, an ...

, in the

Mobbar Mobbar is a Local Government Area of Borno State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Damasak. It has an area of 2,790 km and a population of 116,654 at the 2006 census. The postal code of the area is 602. It is one of the sixte ...

Local Government Area of

Borno State Borno State is a state in the North-East geopolitical zone of Nigeria, bordered by Yobe to the west, Gombe to the southwest, and Adamawa to the south while its eastern border forms part of the national border with Cameroon, its northern border ...

.Mortimore, Michael
Adapting to Drought: Farmers, Famines, and Desertification in West Africa
p. 244 (1989)(note 3 notes that the Komadugu Gana joins the Yobe at Damasak) It rises north of

Bauchi Bauchi (earlier Yakoba) is a city in northeast Nigeria, the Administrative center of Bauchi State, of the Bauchi Local Government Area within that State, and of the traditional Bauchi Emirate. It is located on the northern edge of the Jos Plateau ...

.Oyebande, Lekan
Streamflow regime change and the ecological response in the Lake Chad basin in Nigeria
in ''Hydro-ecology: Linking Hydrology and Aquatic Ecology'' , p. 101, 104 (2001) (Acreman, M.C., ed.) According to a 2011 report by the

International Union for Conservation of Nature The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natu ...

, the water flow of the river no longer reaches the Yobe.Komadugu Yobe Basin,upstream of Lake Chad, Nigeria, WANI Case Study
IUCN, Report 2011-009 The 8,500-year-old

Dufuna canoe The Dufuna canoe is a dugout canoe discovered in 1987 by a Fulani cattle herdsman a few kilometers from the village of Dufuna in the Fune Local Government Area, not far from the Komadugu Gana River, in Yobe State, Nigeria. Radiocarbon dating of a s ...

was discovered during a dig near the river in 1987 in the

Fune Fune is a Local Government Area in Yobe State, Nigeria. Its headquarters are in the town of Damagum in the southwest of the area on the A3 highway at. It has an area of 4,948 km and a population of 300,760 at the 2006 census. The postal co ...

Local Government Area.(24 May 1998)
6,000-Year-Old Canoe To Be Removed
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