Mékrou River
The Mékrou River is a river of Benin, Burkina Faso, and Niger. It flows through the W National Park. A tributary of the Niger River, it begins in Benin north of Kouande and flows for 250 kilometers.Photo: Marco Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger
- Also known as: “Mekrou”, “Mékrou”, and “Mekrou River”
Mékrou River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Benin, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Mékrou River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Mékrou River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الميكرو”
- Arabic: “ميكرو”
- Arabic: “نهر الميكرو”
- Arabic: “نهر ميكرو”
- Asturian: “Ríu Mékrou”
- Bulgarian: “Мекру”
- Catalan: “Mékrou”
- Cebuano: “Mékrou”
- Chinese: “梅克魯河”
- Chuvash: “Мекру”
- Croatian: “Mékrou”
- Esperanto: “Mekru”
- Finnish: “Mékrou”
- French: “Mékrou”
- Fulah: “Mékrou River”
- German: “Mékrou”
- Hungarian: “Mékrou”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Mékrou”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Mékrou”
- Japanese: “メクル川”
- Lithuanian: “Mekru”
- Macedonian: “Мекру”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Mékrou”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mecru”
- Portuguese: “Rio Mekrou”
- Russian: “Мекру”
- Spanish: “Mekrou”
- Spanish: “Mékrou”
- Spanish: “Río Mékrou”
- Swedish: “Mékrou”
- Ukrainian: “Мекру”
- Venetian: “Fiume Mékrou”
- Welsh: “Afon Mékrou”
- “Mékrou River”
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