The Batéké Plateau is located around the border between the
Republic of Congo
The Republic of the Congo, also known as Congo-Brazzaville, the Congo Republic or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo), is a country located on the western coast of Central ...
and
Gabon
Gabon ( ; ), officially the Gabonese Republic (), is a country on the Atlantic coast of Central Africa, on the equator, bordered by Equatorial Guinea to the northwest, Cameroon to the north, the Republic of the Congo to the east and south, and ...
. In both countries it gave name to departments:
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Plateaux Department in
Haut-Ogooué Province
Haut-Ogooué is the southeasternmost of Gabon's nine provinces. It is named after the Ogooué River. It covers an area of . The provincial capital is Franceville. One of its primary industries is mining, with manganese, gold and uranium bein ...
, Gabon
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Plateaux Department, which is a first-level subdivision in
Congo.
The reaches between 550 and 830 metres, and is rich in
manganese
Manganese is a chemical element; it has Symbol (chemistry), symbol Mn and atomic number 25. It is a hard, brittle, silvery metal, often found in minerals in combination with iron. Manganese was first isolated in the 1770s. It is a transition m ...
. The Bateke Plateau is an ancient volcanic area.
Several rivers rise in that area, including the
Niari River
The Kouilou-Niari River—also spelled Kwilu, Kwila, or Kwil—is the most important river flowing to the Atlantic Ocean of the Republic of the Congo coast. Moreover, its entire drainage area is completely in the Republic of the Congo.
Geograp ...
, which flows in Congo, the
Ogooue,
Mpassa,
Ndjoumou,
Lekabi and
Lekey Rivers which flow in Gabon.
See also
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Batéké Plateau National Park
Batéké Plateau National Park ( French: ''Parc National des Plateaux Batéké'') is a national park on the Bateke Plateau, southeastern Gabon covering . Due to its purported universal cultural and natural significance, it was added onto the UNE ...
References
* Perusset André. 1983. Oro-Hydrographie(Le Relief) in ''Geographie et Cartographie du Gabon, Atlas Illustré'' led by The Ministère de l'Education Nationale de la Republique Gabonaise. Pg 10–13. Paris, France: Edicef.
* Petringa, Maria. ''Brazza, A Life for Africa''. Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2006. . Describes Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's extensive explorations of the Ogoué River basin.
Landforms of Gabon
Plateaus of Africa
Western Congolian forest–savanna mosaic
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