Lofa River
The Lofa or Loffa is a river whose headwaters originate in eastern Guinea northeast of Macenta. The river runs southwest through northeastern Liberia before draining into the North Atlantic Ocean.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Guinea and in Liberia
- Also known as: “Half Cap Mount Riviere”, “Little Cape Mount”, “Little Cape Mount River”, “Lofa”, “Loffa”, “Loffa River”, “Nejre River”, and “Rivière du Milieu”
- Historically known as: “Half Cape Mount River”
Lofa River
- Categories: main stem and body of water
- Location: Grand Cape Mount County, Liberia, West Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lofa River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Welsh—“Lofa River” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Lofa River”
- Chinese: “洛法河”
- Dutch: “Lofa River”
- Dutch: “Lofa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوفا”
- French: “fleuve Lofa”
- French: “Lofa”
- Fulah: “Loffa maayo”
- German: “Lofa”
- Greek: “Λόφα”
- Hausa: “Kogin Lofa”
- Irish: “Abhainn Lofa”
- Italian: “Lofa”
- Lithuanian: “Lofa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lofa”
- Russian: “Лофа”
- Welsh: “Afon Lofa”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lofa River”. Photo: Sahmeditor, Public domain.