Sankarani River

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The Sankarani is a tributary of the Niger River in West Africa. It rises in the Fouta Djallon highlands of Guinea, then flows northward into southern Mali, short forms the border between the two states and joins about 40 km above the city of Bamako with the Niger.

In the catchment area of the Sankarani several crops are traditionally grown, it has deposits of iron and gold and covered approximately 35,500 km ². Two-thirds of which are located in the area of Guinea, where his biggest tributary, the Dion flows. After the construction of the dam Sélingué 1980, nearly cubic meters number of waters of the Sankarani that actually reached the Niger halved.

On the banks of Sankarani Niani in the capital of the powerful Mali Empire is said to have been found from the 13th to the 16th century.

Swell

• Inger Andersen, Katherin George Golitzen: The Niger River Basin: A Vision for Sustainable Management. World Bank ( 2005) ISBN 0-8213-6203-8.
• John Donnelly Fage, Roland Anthony Oliver: The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 3 Cambridge University Press ( 1975), P378. ISBN 0-521-20981-1.

• Niger River system
• River in Africa
• River in Guinea
• River in Mali