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.
- Stream
- …is also known as “Mékrou”
- Description: river in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger
- Categories
- Location
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Latitude
12.40727° or 12° 24′ 26″ north
Longitude
2.82618° or 2° 49′ 34″ east
Open location code
7F44CR4G+WF
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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”
- Dagbani: “Mékrou Mɔɣili”
- Dagbani: “Mékrou River”
- Esperanto: “Mekru”
- Finnish: “Mékrou”
- French: “Mékrou”
- Fulah: “Mékrou River”
- German: “Mékrou”
- Hausa: “Kogin 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”
- Somali: “Webiga Mékrou”
- Spanish: “Mékrou”
- Spanish: “Río Mékrou”
- Swahili: “Mto Mékrou”
- Swedish: “Mékrou”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Mékrou”
- Ukrainian: “Мекру”
- Venetian: “Fiume Mékrou”
- Welsh: “Afon Mékrou”
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