Senegal River

River in West Africa

The Senegal River (Serer: "Seen O Gal" or "Senegal" - compound of the Serer term "Seen" or "Sene" or "Sen" (from Roog Seen, Supreme Deity in Serer religion) and "O Gal" (meaning "body of water")); Wolof: Dexug Senegaal, Arabic: نهر السنغال, romanized: Nahr as-Siniġāl, Hassaniyya pronunciation: [nahrˤ əs.säjnigaːl], French: Fleuve Sénégal) is a 1086-kilometre-long (675 mi) river in West Africa; much of its length marks part of the border between Senegal and Mauritania. It has a drainage basin of 270000 km² (100000 sq mi), a mean flow of 680 m³/s (24,000 cu ft/s), and an annual discharge of 21.5 km³ (5.2 cu mi). Important tributaries are the Falémé River, Karakoro River, and the Gorgol River.

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