Lofa River

{{Short description|River in West Africa}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2020}} {{Infobox river | name = Lofa | image = | image_size = | image_caption = | source1_location = Macenta Prefecture in Guinea | mouth_location = Atlantic Ocean south of Robertsport at | mouth_coordinates = {{coord|6|34|26|N|11|3|38|W|display=inline,title}} | subdivision_type1 = Countries | subdivision_name1 = Guinea and Liberia | length_km = 410 | source1_elevation = {{cvt|940|m|abbr=on}} | mouth_elevation = {{cvt|0|m|abbr=on}} | discharge1_location=Near mouth | discharge1_avg=(Period: 1979–2015) {{cvt|18.63|km3/year|m3/s|abbr=on}}<ref name="River Basins">{{cite web|url=http://twap-rivers.org/indicators|title=River Basins}}</ref> | basin_size_km2 = 10,446 | basin_size_ref = <ref name="River Basins">{{cite web|url=http://twap-rivers.org/indicators|title=River Basins}}</ref> }} The '''Lofa''' or '''Loffa''' is a river whose headwaters originate in eastern Guinea northeast of Macenta. The river runs southwest through northeastern Liberia before draining into the North Atlantic Ocean.<ref name=map>(1) {{cite web|url=https://www.worldometers.info/img/maps/liberia_physical_map.gif|title=Liberia Physical Map|work=Worldometers|accessdate=24 June 2020|archive-date=24 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624034902/https://www.worldometers.info/img/maps/liberia_physical_map.gif|url-status=dead}}.<br>(2) {{cite web|url=http://ontheworldmap.com/liberia/liberia-political-map.jpg|title=Liberia Political Map|work=OnTheWorldMap|accessdate=24 June 2020|archive-date=24 June 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200624045824/http://ontheworldmap.com/liberia/liberia-political-map.jpg|url-status=dead}}.</ref> Historically it has also been known as the '''Little Cape Mount River'''.<ref name="expl">{{cite book | title = African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-century Diaries |author1=Sims, James L. |author2=Seymour, George L. |author3=Anderson, Benjamin J. K. |author4=Fairhead, James | isbn = 0-253-34194-9|publisher = Indiana University Press |year = 2003 | page = 375}}</ref> The Lawa River enters the Lofa River in Liberia's Lofa County.<ref name=map/>

Indigenous species include the pygmy hippopotamus.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news | url = https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1912/07/14/100542377.pdf | title = At last New York has a pair of pygmy hippos | date = July 14, 1912 | accessdate = 2009-01-12 | format = PDF | work = The New York Times }}</ref> Several diamond mining concessions along the Lofa River were granted in the late 1950s and early 1960s.<ref name="diamonds">{{cite book | title = West African Diamonds | author = Greenhalgh, Peter | isbn = 0-7190-1763-7 | pages = 72–73 | year = 1985 | publisher = Manchester University Press}}</ref>

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Category:Rivers of Guinea Category:Rivers of Liberia Category:International rivers of Africa