Mellacorée River

9°13′N 13°3′W

Mellacorée River
Location
Country	Guinea
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Atlantic Ocean

The Mellacorée River is a short river in Guinea. Most of its lower part is an estuary.[1]

History

The Mellacorée River was one of the "Southern Rivers," a territory gradually occupied by the French between 1860 and 1880 and placed under the authority of the governor of Senegal before becoming the colony of Guinea. A military outpost was established in 1866 in Benty, at the mouth of the river.[2]

References

1. Diop, Salif (1990). La côte ouest-africaine. Du Saloum (Sénégal) à la Mellacorée (Rép. de Guinée) (in French). Paris: l'ORSTOM. p. 380.
2. Brosselard-Faidherbe, Henri (1892). Casamance et Mellacorée. Pénétration au Soudan (PDF) (in French). Paris: Librairie illustrée. p. 106.

Further reading

• Oxford Journals Extract