The Noun River is a river in the West Province of

Cameroon Cameroon, officially the Republic of Cameroon, is a country in Central Africa. It shares boundaries with Nigeria to the west and north, Chad to the northeast, the Central African Republic to the east, and Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and the R ...

. It arises at

Lake Oku Lake Oku is a crater lake on the Bamenda Plateau in the Northwest Region of Cameroon. It is located at on Mount Oku, and is completely surrounded by cloud forest. The lake lies in an explosion crater formed in the last phase of development of ...

() and flows south, it is joined by the Monoun River and flows south in the valley between the mountains Ngotsetzezan and Mount Yahou.1:1,000,000 - International Map of the World U.S. Army Map Service
Sheet NB-32 (Douala)
2nd Ed., April 1962 It turns east at about 5° N latitude. Its mouth is at the

Mbam River The Mbam River is the largest tributary of the Sanaga River in Cameroon. It has a total length of and has a total drainage basin of . It flows from the Adamawa Plateau The Adamawa Plateau () is a plateau region in west-central Africa stretchin ...

(), which itself is a tributary of the

Sanaga River The Sanaga River (formerly ) is the largest river in Cameroon located in East Region (Cameroon), East Region, Centre Region (Cameroon), Centre Region and Littoral Region (Cameroon), Littoral Region. Its length is about from the confluence of Dj ...

. It forms the boundary between the

Bamiléké The Bamiléké people are an ethnic group of Central Africa that inhabits the Western High Plateau colloquially known as the ''grassfields'' of Cameroon. According to Dr John Feyou de Hapy, Bamiléké means "people of faith". Languages The Bam ...

area and the Bamun area, and played a key role in the history of the Bamiléké people. The Noun River was dammed at Bamendjing in 1975 () creating a reservoir with the same name. At its maximum the reservoir is 32 km (20 mi) long and 27 km (17 mi) wide. Its surface area varies between 150 km² (57.9 mi²) and 300 km² (116 mi²).van der Knaap, Martin (1994) ''Status of fish stocks and fisheries of thirteen medium-sized African reservoirs'' CIFA technical paper #26, Committee for Inland Fisheries of Africa (CIFA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome
page 11
citing Vanden Bossche, J. P. and Bernacsek, G. M. (1990) ''Source book for the inland fishery resources of Africa: vol. 1'' CIFA technuical paper #18.1, Committee for Inland Fisheries of Africa (CIFA), Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), Rome, The Noun River hosts

hippopotamus The hippopotamus (''Hippopotamus amphibius;'' ; : hippopotamuses), often shortened to hippo (: hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus and river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Sahar ...

that can be seen all year long, in the wild parts of the river, along with many birds, such as the palm nut vulture, the

bee-eater The bee-eaters are a group of birds in the family (biology), family Meropidae, containing three genera and thirty-one species. Most species are found in Africa and Asia, with a few in southern Europe, Australia, and New Guinea. They are characte ...

, the hammerkop, and the

kingfisher Kingfishers are a family, the Alcedinidae, of small to medium-sized, brightly coloured birds in the order Coraciiformes. They have a cosmopolitan distribution, with most species living in the tropical regions of Africa, Asia, and Oceania, ...

Lake-Bamendjing-and-the-Mban-Massif-Cameroon

Gallery

File:WikiAfr20 MarcJP46 06.jpg, Canoe on Noun River. File:Piroguier sur le fleuve Noun .jpg 03.jpg, Canoe File:Enfant dans une pirogue sur le fleuve Noun .jpg .02.jpg, Young boy on Noun River in Bamendjing. File:Enfants dans une pirogue sur le fleuve Noun .jpg. 01.jpg, Children in locally made Canoes

Notes

Rivers of Cameroon {{Cameroon-river-stub