Cestos River

The Cestos River, also known as Nuon or Nipoué river,^[3] is a Liberian river that rises in the Nimba Range of Guinea and flows south along the Ivory Coast border, then south-west through tracts of Liberian rain forest to empty into a bay on the Atlantic Ocean where the town of Cestos is located. The pygmy hippopotamus is known to inhabit lands along stretches of the river.^[4] It forms the northern third of the international boundary between Liberia and Ivory Coast.

Cestos
Liberia Cestos River
Location
Countries	Guinea Côte d'Ivoire Liberia
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Nimba Range, Guinea
Mouth
• location	Atlantic Ocean
Length	476 km (296 mi)[1]
Basin size	12,723 km2 (4,912 sq mi)[2]
Discharge
• location	Near mouth
• average	(Period: 1979–2015) 18.35 km3/a (581 m3/s)[2]
Basin features
River system	Cestos River

During the First Liberian Civil War, the portion of the river near the city of Cestos was a leading food and mineral extraction region for the National Patriotic Front of Liberia.^[5]