Lofa River
| Lofa | |
|---|---|
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • location | Macenta Prefecture in Guinea |
| Mouth | |
• location | Atlantic Ocean south of Robertsport at |
• elevation | 0 m (0 ft) |
The Lofa or Loffa is a river in Guinea and in Liberia. Historically it has also been known as the Little Cape Mount River.[1]
Indigenous species include the Pygmy Hippopotamus.[2]
Several diamond mining concessions along the Lofa River were granted in the late 1950s and early 1960s.[3]
Notes
- ^ Sims, James L.; Seymour, George L.; Anderson, Benjamin J. K.; Fairhead, James (2003). African-American Exploration in West Africa: Four Nineteenth-century Diaries. Indiana University Press. p. 375. ISBN 0-253-34194-9.
- ^ "At last New York has a pair of pygmy hippos" (PDF). The New York Times. July 14, 1912. Retrieved 2009-01-12.
- ^ Greenhalgh, Peter (1985). West African Diamonds. Manchester University Press. pp. 72–73. ISBN 0-7190-1763-7.