Rivers of Africa

Wed, Nov 8, 2023

One map shows almost 200k line polygons belonging to rivers attributed with a couple of parameters, such as their major river basin or the Strahler stream order of each arc.

Here, I build on the dataset of African rivers published by the United Nations FAO. Their GIS file contains almost 200k line polygons belonging to rivers attributed with a couple of parameters, such as their major river basin or the Strahler stream order of each arc. I used the letter to set both the colour and width of each river; the higher the rank, the darker and thicker the river.

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐜𝐞: https://data.apps.fao.org/catalog/dataset/b891ca64-4cd4-4efd-a7ca-b386e98d52e8/resource/c6765d2a-17de-4ad2-ad0d-bfd1e87b5c43

Data accessed: 2023 October 14