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Cross River is the main River in southeastern Nigeria and gives its name to Cross River State . Although not long by African standards its Catchment has high rainfall and it becomes very wide. Over its last 80 km to the sea its flows through Swamp y Rainforest with numerous Creek s and forms an inland Delta about 20 km wide and 50 km long between the cities of Oron on the west bank and Calabar on the east bank, more than 30 km from the open sea. The delta empties into a broad estuary which it shares with a few smaller rivers. At its mouth in the Bight Of Biafra the estuary is 24 km wide. The eastern side of the estuary is in the neighbouring country of Cameroon . Owing to its width the Cross River is a barrier to Highway s and is bridged only once in its last 250 km, at the 700 m long road bridge carrying the highway between Aba and Calabar. The distance between Oron and Calabar is 21 km by boat and about 200 km by road. The population of the lower Cross River traditionally use water transport and Calabar has long had a major Seaport , located in the Calabar River about 10 km from its confluence with the Cross River and about 55 km from the sea. The Cross River forms a boundary between two Tropical Moist Forest Ecoregion s, the Cross-Niger Transition Forests which lie west of the river, between the Cross and Niger Rivers, and the Cross-Sanaga-Bioko Coastal Forests , which lie to the east between the Cross River and the Sanaga River of Cameroon . |
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