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Mékrou River

river in Benin, Burkina Faso and Niger
Place river Q739892

Facts

8 properties

Identity

Instance of
river

Location

Country
Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin[5][6][7]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 12.407°, 2.826°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger[2][3][4]

Population and size

Length
+410[9]
More facts +3
Drainage basin
Niger basin[11]
Mouth of the watercourse
Niger River[8]
Watershed area
+10500[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mekrou en Mékrou en Mekrou River en Mékrou River ar الميكرو ar ميكرو ar نهر الميكرو ar نهر ميكرو es Mekrou id Sungai Mékrou ja メクル川 pt Rio Mekrou ru Мекру zh 梅克魯河
🔖 Identifiers · 10
VIAF cluster ID
316600314
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2002005122
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Mekrou river in W-National Park MS 6380.JPG ↗
FAST ID
1311825
Freebase ID
/m/04cs5bx
GNS Unique Feature ID
-1335038
GeoNames ID
2392770
National Library of Israel ID (old)
000874388
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007542127805171
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["River", "Mekrou::ps6z8"]

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🔗 Connections
Country 3
Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger
Located in the administrative territorial entity 3
Burkina Faso, Benin, Niger
Instance of 1
river
Located in time zone 1
UTC+01:00
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Niger River
← FactGrid item ID 1
Stavky
← Located in or next to body of water 1
Falmey
← Tributary 1
Niger River
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Summary

Mékrou River is a river[1].

Related Entities

Benin Burkina Faso Niger Niger River

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . GeoNames. wikidata.org.
  3. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 12w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-08-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/46550|batch #46550]]: redundant value; it should not have a time zone."
  2. 26w ago · Gower · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Burkina Faso, Niger, Benin
    Mouth of the watercourse → Niger River
    Length → {'unit': 'Q828224', 'amount': '+410'}
    Instance of → —
    + 10 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbeditentity-update-languages-short:0||pl */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/30593|batch #30593]]: Rivers in Niger +Dpl"
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