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Africa's third longest river takes a crazy long route to get to the sea from its source in southern Guinea. (sopuli.xyz)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Kind of, yes. Surprisingly not that much. But enough to divert all the local water northward apparently.

What's interesting is that all the other surrounding water flows southward. Burkina Faso even used to be called Upper Volta, because of the largest river there.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Wow. Thanks for the info!