MapPorn
Map of all African rivers there are.
Algeria is a little chewed, for some reason..
Discussion
So there’s rivers although the Sahara desert?
There are a lot of dry river beds in the Sahara.
It does ocassionally rain and they can even sometimes be somewhat dangerous waterways for a short time. It is a very transient thing though.
Or valley
Yes but no
These only exist when it rains (not often), ald are mostly dry the rest of the time. Most of them don't even go to the sea, and instead dry up in the middle of the desert, lead to an oasis... or something along those lines. You may just as well call them seasonnal flood (though some may be dry for more than a year)
Madagascar looks like Africa’s newborn.
In a few decades another part gets detached due to great rift…..Another baby
A few million years, maybe!
The title reads like Yoda is talking.
The Rivers in African there are in the map all of them
Yoda talking is like title reads, mmm.
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Nah thats a good thing. The Europeans struggled to come inland as a result and delayed their fuckery.
Yes, but lack of navigability also prevented Africans from coastal civilizations from expanding internally and creating larger states that would be more capable of resisting against Europeans, so it cuts both ways.
The Congo is navigable but that didn’t exactly help the people living there. Also, the king there was eager to sell people and rubber. The political organization they had didn’t help
It had major areas of rapids and waterfalls that the Belgians built railways to get around so not navigable from the sea.
It is a monkey’s paw.
European powers struggled to penetrate inland due to the rivers being so unnavigable, but now that Africa wants to build itself, those same natural barriers now point inwards.
Water carries more trade goods than any other vector on earth. Rail can be expensive, requires good land, dedicated infrastructure, and needs to be maintained. Equally, you can fit a lot less on a train than you can on a boat.
There’s a reason the most developed countries on Earth have their own coastlines.
In an alternate universe, there are diplomatic deliberations taking place between The Gambia and every European country with an Atlantic coast, over reparations and recognition of the centuries of exploitation and genocide perpetrated by the Gambians.
Never forget the millions of Walloon kids who had their lips chopped off for missing glass quotas!
In rememberance of the scores of Aquitanians who perished when Banjul decreed that their walnut exports would be increased to 250% of annual production!
We will make sure that the injustices perpetrated against Tröndelag people and sheep alike will never repeat!
Those bastards with their bridges, electricity, indoor plumbing, and literacy. Who needs all that anyway?
Yea, that really helped Congo...
Not gonna credit the one who made this? It's very pixelated and super obvious that it's just a repost or screenshot of someone else's work
Took from a dude on X. Can't recall who it was, since it was quite a while back.
Looks like one I made about 8 years ago. I doubt this one's mine but I recall at the time there were a lot of colourful watershed maps like this going around ( as well as the a boom of polygonial art). This is pretty easy to generate quickly on most GIS programs.
Wonderful. You should do all the continents.
Wow the size and shape of the DRC makes sense now
Very beautiful.
Libya : cries in no permanent rivers
Whoever made this map must hate Morocco
Morocco is European anyway.
North africa had rivers? Or are those just wadis?
Likely used basins. 60% of such are already empty.
shit looks like lightning bolts
Only one of them navigable to the sea :(
Nice salad.
Crazy how they reassemble lightning rays.
Map porn indeed. Thanks for sharing.
So there's a river in Somalia that just runs parallel to the coastline for a significant portion of that country's coastline?
Wow. Congo is the most impressive beast
The ones that look landlocked? I’ve heard of Okavanga. Other than that can anyone help? The blue roughly NE of Nigeria please
Gongola river.
Thanks
North and east Morocco just disappear in silence
Too mountainous to render..
That’s gorgeous . Do you have a high quality version of that map ?
Yes but. Reddit kind of messes every image's quality right away. I can provide you with the original link if you're interested, since I found it.
Libya?
Ah yes, the vast river systems of the Sahara
I think you missed one.
Idk if your map is wrong or if my eyes are lying but there's definitly not that much rivers in the sahara
How do you think people that settled there throughout history managed..? International aid..?
Other than the along the Nile, do you mind mentioning who settled where in the sahara?
Wooooooooooah
Very cool
Also map of where the most people live
And almost none of them lead to the sea.
I bless the rains down in Afriiiicaaa Do-do-do-do-do-do-dooooo But Algeria’s crisp like a week-old fondueuuu
Well, it's a map of the water basin: where water flows to when it rains. Most of those are not active rivers.
Either way it looks cool.