What is Gambia River?
[[Image:River gambia Niokolokoba National Park.gif|thumb|250px|Gambia River in the [[Niokolo-Koba National Park]]]]{{Redlinks|date=May 2020}} The '''Gambia River''' (formerly known as the '''River Gambra''') is a major [[river]] in West [[Africa]]. It is about {{convert|1120|km|mi}} long. It runs from the [[Fouta Djallon]] plateau in north [[Guinea]] westward through [[Senegal]] and [[the Gambia]] to the [[Atlantic Ocean]] at the city of [[Banjul]]. It is navigable for about half that length. == Geography == The river is strongly associated with [[The Gambia]], the smallest country in mainland Africa, which consists of little more than the downstream half of the river and its two banks. From the Fouta Djallon, the river runs northwest into the [[Tambacounda Region]] of Senegal, where it flows through the [[Parc National du Niokolo Koba]], then is joined by the [[Nieri Ko]] and [[Koulountou]] before entering the Gambia at [[Fatoto]]. At this point the river runs generally west, but in a meandering course with a number of [[Oxbow lake|oxbows]], and about 100km from its mouth it gradually widens, to over 10km wide where it meets the sea. Near the mouth of the river, near [[Juffure]], is [[Kunta Kinteh Island]], a place used in the [[slave trade]] which is now a [[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Site]]. The aquatic fauna in the Gambia River [[Drainage basin|basin]] is closely associated with that of the [[Senegal River]] basin, and the two are usually combined under a single [[ecoregion]] known as the [[List of freshwater ecoregions in Africa and Madagascar#Nilo-Sudan|Senegal-Gambia Catchments]]. Although the [[species richness]] is moderately high, only three species of frogs and one fish are [[Endemism|endemic]] to this ecoregion.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.feow.org/ecoregions/details/senegal_gambia|title=509: Senegal – Gambia|website=Freshwater Ecoregions of the World|access-date=30 October 2016|archive-date=30 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161030202252/http://www.feow.org/ecoregions/de