Travel Guide Riviere Komadougou

This seasonal river, which runs 150 km in Niger and serves as a border with Nigeria, runs extensively during the rainy season and leaves space to ponds drying between April and May. Its banks are very wooded (monkeys populations) and its waters fish. Fishermen have silures and poles that they then smoke for sale. This area is quite populated by the Doo and Mobeur, groups of the Kanouri ethnic group, which practice agriculture and livestock. The Kadzell is famous for its rice fields and, above all, its cultivation of sweet peppers washed on the banks, recherché for cooking dishes. Most of the production is in the west and in neighbouring Nigeria. The river with the proximity of Lake Chad makes the ornithologists happy. It is a place for migrating migratory birds after the large crossing of the Sahara, and many species nest in the vegetation provided on its shores. Residents cross the ventre course on large gourds that serve them as floats and luggage racks and in which they slip their effects, free from water. You can try it, but the bath is almost guaranteed! The Komadougou is accessible from Maïné-Soroa by taking the RN 1 towards the east on 7 km to the sign of the village Tam. Then take the trail south over a few kilometres, ask for access to the Komadougou (N'Gada, en kanouri). On your road, between Zinder and N'Guigmi, why not spend a peaceful bivouac night on the river, in the shadow of the centuries old tamarinds. It is also accessible from Diffa (a few kilometers) or from Bosso (90 km south of N'Guigmi) where it flows in the village. Bosso is also with N'Guigmi, based on floods, a point of access to Lake Chad.