| Ogowe River |
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With a length of about 900 km, the Ogoué is relatively short. It rises in the northwest of the Bateke Plateau , runs northwest and then west, running into the Gulf Of Guinea south of Port Gentil . The River Delta is quite large, about 100 km long and 100 km wide. The total watershed is 223,856 sq km, and consists mostly of undisturbed Forest with some Grassland ; the catchment area has an average population destiny of 4 people per sq km. The Ogoué is Navigable for much of its length, and is a major artery for commerce in Gabon. Towns along the river include Loanda , Lambarene , Ndjole , Booué , Kankan , Ndoro , Lastoursville , Moanda and Franceville near the Congo border. All three species of , the Dwarf Crocodile , and the Slender-snouted Crocodile . The first European Explorer , Pierre Savorgnan De Brazza , travelled in the area in the 1870s . Persistent reports by the natives of creatures resembling Dinosaur s have motivated a number of recent expeditions into the area of the northern tributaries of the Ogoué and the swamps on the western side of the Congo River . Tributaries:
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