The Pendé River (french: Rivière Pendé) is a river in central

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. It arises in

Ouham-Pendé Ouham-Pendé is one of the 16 prefectures of the Central African Republic. Its capital is Bozoum. The region contains several ghost towns such as Goroumo, Beogombo Deux and Paoua due to government forces ransacking them and armed bandits kill ...

in the

Central African Republic The Central African Republic (CAR; ; , RCA; , or , ) is a landlocked country in Central Africa. It is bordered by Chad to the north, Sudan to the northeast, South Sudan to the southeast, the DR Congo to the south, the Republic of the C ...

and flows north, forming a short part of the international boundary between the Central African Republic and

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. It eventually merges with the

Logone River The Logon or Logone River is a major tributary of the Chari River. The Logone's sources are located in the western Central African Republic, northern Cameroon, and southern Chad. It has two major tributaries: the Pendé River (Eastern Logone) i ...

near

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. Historically it gave its name to the French administrative district

Pendé Pendé () is a commune in the Somme department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Geography The commune is situated on the D2 road, some northwest of Abbeville, near the bay of the Somme River. Population Pendé, Somme, Fr, église vue d ...

, which was ceded to Germany as part of

Neukamerun Neukamerun was the name of Central African territories ceded by the Third French Republic to the German Empire in 1911. Upon taking office in 1907, Theodor Seitz, governor of Kamerun, advocated the acquisition of territories from the French C ...

at the

treaty of Fez The Treaty of Fes ( ar, معاهدة فاس, ), officially the Treaty Concluded Between France and Morocco on 30 March 1912, for the Organization of the French Protectorate in the Sherifien Empire (), was a treaty signed by Sultan Abd al-Hafid ...

1912.

Hydrometry

The flow of the river observed over 28 years (1947–75) in Doba a town in Chad about 70 km above the mouth into the Logon.GRDC – Der Pendé in Doba
/ref> The at Doba observed average annual flow during this period was 128 m³ / s fed by an area of about 14.300 km ² a majority of the total catchment area of the River.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Pende River Rivers of the Central African Republic Rivers of Chad International rivers of Africa Central African Republic–Chad border Border rivers