Sassandra River
The Sassandra River is a river of western Côte d'Ivoire in West Africa. It is formed by the confluence of the Tienba River, which originates in the highlands of northwestern Côte d'Ivoire, and the Gouan River (also known as the Bafing Sud River), which originates to the west in the highlands of Guinea. The Sassandra flows south-southeast to empty into the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The Buyo Dam was constructed across the middle stretch of the river in 1980, just below the confluence with the Nzo River, to create the reservoir called Lake Buyo. The Davo River joins the Sassandra just before it meets the sea. The port town of Sassandra lies on the seacoast where the river meets the sea.

The Sassandra and its tributaries flow through terrestrial ecoregions. The northern, or upper, part of the watershed lies in the Guinean forest-savanna mosaic ecoregion. Further south, it forms the boundary between two tropical moist forest ecoregions, the Western Guinean lowland forests and the Eastern Guinean forests.
Q1008
Côte d'Ivoire
LOC
Q4412
West Africa
LOC
None
Tienba River
UNK
None
Gouan River
UNK
Q1006
Guinea
LOC
Q41430
Gulf of Guinea
LOC
Q97
Atlantic Ocean
LOC
Q3444380
Buyo Dam
LOC
None
Nzo River
UNK
Q4809051
Lake Buyo
LOC
None
Davo River
UNK
Q44782
port
Concept
Q586448
Sassandra
LOC
Q295469
ecoregion
Concept
Q2672617
Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
Concept
Q158579
tropical moist forest
Concept
Q2092130
Western Guinean lowland forests
Concept
Q2090194
Eastern Guinean forests
Concept
Q1535828
Sassandra River
LOC
1980-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
1980
DATE
country
mouth of the watercourse
located on terrain feature
part of
reservoir created
dam