The Bentiaba (or ''Rio de São Nicolau'' or Saint Nicolas River) is a river in southern
Angola
Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...
. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean near the
commune of Bentiaba in
Namibe Province
Namibe Province is a Provinces of Angola, province of Angola. Under Portuguese Angola, Portuguese rule it was the Moçâmedes District. It has an area of 57,091 km2 and had a 2014 census population of 495,326. The port and city of Namibe, Mo ...
.
The riverbank has produced a number of Cretaceous fossils including
mosasaur
Mosasaurs (from Latin ''Mosa'' meaning the 'Meuse', and Ancient Greek, Greek ' meaning 'lizard') are an extinct group of large aquatic reptiles within the family Mosasauridae that lived during the Late Cretaceous. Their first fossil remains wer ...
s from Itombe Formation.
Bentiaba is also the name given to the Cretaceous bonebed.
[Strganac, C., Jacobs L., Polcyn M., Mateus O., Myers T., Araújo R., Fergunson K. M., Gonçalves A. O., Morais M. L., Schulp A. S., da Tavares T. S., & Salminen J. (2014). Geological Setting and Paleoecology of the Upper Cretaceous Bench 19 Marine Vertebrate Bonebed at Bentiaba, Angola. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences. 1-16.]
See also
*
List of rivers of Angola
This is a list of rivers in Angola. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
Atlantic Ocean
*Chiloango River
*Congo River
**Inkisi River
**Kasai River (Cassai River)
***Kwango ...
References
Rivers of Angola
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