Pongo River

Pongo River

Pongo River can refer to:

*The Pongo River (Guinea) or Rio Pongo, an estuary that meets the Atlantic Ocean near Boffa, Guinea;
*The Pongo River (Sudan), a river in the Bahr el Ghazal region of Sudan.

ee also

*Pungo River, a river in North Carolina

External links

* [http://www.diaspora.uiuc.edu/news0906/news0906.html African Diaspora Archaeology newsletter, Sept. 2006]
* [http://www.birdlife.org/datazone/sites/index.html?action=SitHTMDetails.asp&sid=6368&m=0# BirdLife International factsheet (Rio Pongo estuary, Guinea)]
* [http://www.cde.unibe.ch/sudan/maps/south/suso500d_low.pdf Swiss Dept. of Foreign Affairs, map of Central Bahr el Ghazal]


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