Ogooué-Milk

The Ogooué-Milk is a province of the Gabon. Its chief town is Koulamoutou.

The Province of the Ogooué-Milk has a surface of 25.380 km ², that is to say approximately 10% of the national surface. Limited to north by the Province of the Ogooué-Ivindo, to the West by the Province of the Ngounié, to the East by the Province of the Haut-Ogooué and to the South by the Republic of Congo.

The Ogooué-Milk includes/understands three departments subdivided themselves in cantons. These three departments are, by order of importance, the following: the Milk-Bouenguidi whose chief town is Koulamoutou, the provincial capital, the Mulundu whose chief town is Lastourville and the Lômbo-Bouenguidi with for chief town Pana.

The greatest river of the Province of the Ogooué-Milk is the Ogooué, which gave its name to each Gabonese province that it crosses. The department of Mulundu is located on its left bank. On its Right Bank, i.e. to the North of Ogooué, the country Kota extends covered by plate X having an average altitude from 300 to 400 meters.

As everywhere on the Gabonese territory, the climate of the Ogooué-Milk is equatorial. This equatorial climate is of southern transition because it results in the distribution of the seasons into two great units: rains and remissions of the rains. The small remission of the rains, named Kwélé , is much less clear; it has one variable duration from two to four weeks and intervenes between February and January. The small rains, called Pessamboula by the Adouma S, go from March to June. The great remission of the rains, called Issighou or Mangala , lasts three months, of at the end of June at the end of September. Finally it there with the Mbula or Mboule , i.e. moment when the great seasons are clearly marked. Pluviometry is of 1700 mm in the north of the Province and grows up to 2000 m in the south in the Massif of Chaillu.

The province of the Ogooué-Milk is covered with the Equatorial forest as a whole. The forest constitutes one of the greatest determining factors of the evolution of the man in this area.

Chief towns of department

Source

  • Statoids.com - Gabon

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