Average monthly flow (m3/s) at the Oualia gauging station over the period 1951-1978[1]
The source of the Bakoy is at an elevation of 760 m in the granite Monts Ménien to the northwest of Siguiri in Guinea. The river flows north and forms part of the international border between Guinea and Mali. It then meanders across the Manding Plateau and joins its principal affluent, the Baloué, which rises to the west of Bamako.[4] The Bakoy is 560 km in length[5] and drains a basin of around 85,600 km2. The river is seasonal with a maximum flow in September after the start of the West African Monsoon and almost no flow between January and June.[1] The large year-to-year variation in the intensity of the West African Monsoon gives rise to large changes in the discharge of the Bakoy River. For the exceptionally dry year of 1972, the average flow at the Oualiagauging station, 54 km upstream of Bafoulabé, was only 30 m3/s while in 1958 the value was 260 m3/s. The average flow over the period 1951-1978 was 156 m3/s corresponding to an annual discharge of 4.9 km3.[1] At Bafoulabé the average discharge of the Bakoy is between a third and a half of that of the Bafing.[6]
Referencesedit
^ abc, Unesco International Hydrological Programme, archived from the original on 2009-12-03, retrieved 2 Jun 2012.
^ (in French), Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal, archived from the original on 2013-07-16, retrieved 2 June 2012.
^Maïga, Mahamadou (1995), Le bassin du fleuve Sénégal: de la Traite négrière au développement sous-régional autocentré (in French), L'Harmattan, p. 14 footnotes 4, 5.
^(PDF) (in French), Système Mondial d’Observation du Cycle Hydrologique (WHYCOS), 2007, p. 4, archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-12-28.
^Shahin, Mamdouh (2002), Hydrology and Water Resources of Africa, New York: Kluwer, p. 379, ISBN9781402008665.
^Étude des impacts environnementaux du projet d’aménagement de Félou(PDF) (in French), Organisation pour la mise en valeur du fleuve Sénégal, 2006, pp. 59–61.
January 01, 1970
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