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Bentiaba River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Bentiaba (or Rio de São Nicolau or Saint Nicolas River) is a river in southern Angola. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean near the commune of Bentiaba in Namibe Province. The riverbank has produced a number of Cretaceous fossils including mosasaurs from Itombe Formation. Bentiaba is also the name given to the Cretaceous bonebed.

Flows through: Angola.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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