Gorgol River

The Gorgol River is a river in the Gorgol Region in southern Mauritania. It is a tributary of the Senegal River. The river is made by the confluence of the Gorgol Noir (194 km in length), with the Gorgol Blanc (345 km in length). The Gorgol River joins the Senegal River at Kaédi..

The river basin is important to the Mauritanian economy because of investment in the 1970s.Nations Encyclopedia, Retrieved June 11, 2008Jobin, William R., Negrón-Aponte, Henry and  Michelson, Edward H., 1976,Schistosomiasis in the Gorgol Valley of Mauritania , Human Ecology Division, Puerto Rico Nuclear Center, Caparra Heights Station, Puerto Rico and Department of Tropical Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, Retrieved on June 11, 2008

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Category:Geography of Mauritania
Category:Rivers of Africa