! !Cabedu Cacine Sansalé Ponta Canin•cante Orango ! 13° W Djarga 14° W ! Orangozinho Rio Cumbioja Ponta Abebupa Ijao Vieira Hamdallay Yola Ponta Canina ! Kabako Campeane ! ! 15° W Tinguilima Ponta Cunhune Cavalos Rio Cacine REGIONAL SHORELINE MONITORING STUDY AND Canal de Orango 11° N Ponta Ancumbe Ponta Anamina 11° N Kambilam DRAWING UP A MANAGEMENT SCHEME FOR Meio ! THE WEST AFRICAN COASTAL AREA Bakhaday Boké ! ! Dobali Kadinie ! ! Sangban Rapas ! ! West African Katchek Poilao ! Economicand Monetary Union Sougoubouli Tristao ! Katonguila Kanfarandé ! ! Rio Componi COASTAL MANAGEMENT SCHEME Pointe Kapsinn Kolabounyi ! GN1-a Pointe Tristao CONTINENTAL SHELF AND LOCATION OF MAP Kamsar 1:500 000 SCALE ! Bintimodia ! 0 5 km 50 km Rio Nunez 20 km Pointe de l' Amarante Bogonia ! Mauritanie N Mankountan NW NE ! GN1-b Pointe Bencer GuinéeGuinea - 1/1 - 1/1 W E SierraSierra Leone Leone 1/2 1/2Feuille 4/9 SW SE GUINEA Sénégal S SECTOR CODES / PRIORITIES MONITORING Sheet 4/9 Niger Intensive monitoring Sector reference and observation Mali MR2-a Tougnifili Fatala Very high priority ! GN1 - NORTH CAP VERGA - TRISTAO GN1 - NORTH VERGA CAP GN1-c Burkina Faso Regular monitoring Guinée MR2-a Sector reference Bissau High priority and observation Sector reference Watch keeping for MR2-a Guinée Low/average priority anticipation Benin Foulaya ! Sierra Konkoure TYPES AND IMPORTANCE GN1-d Leone KoundindéSoubané OF STAKES BY SECTOR ! ! Lakhata Douprou Nigeria ! ! COASTAL SEA FRONT Boffa Libéria Côte d'Ivoire Ghana Togo ORGANISATION SCHEME Cap Verga (sector organisation scheme) ! Necessary and top priority Urgent To be planned in the medium or long term Bathymetry To be planned to anticipate future developments Bouramaya ! 0 m 250 m GN2-a HUMAN STAKES AND SETTLEMENTS THREATENED Rio Pongo 10° N Dense and considerable High risk Dispersed Taboriya ! 10° N Tatéma Growing ! TOURISM AND RESIDENTIAL AREAS Important stakes, management scheme opportune GN2-b Important local or future stakes to be anticipated Case study Development of the sector to be anticipated ECOSYSTEMS AND BIODIVERSITY Dubréka GN2 - MANGROVES INTHE CENTRAL ZONE GN2-c ! Protected areas Possible interest in biodiversity - to be confirmed GUINEA Natural, more on less artificialised ecosystems ! Coyah deserving of conservation measures GN3-a Baie de Sangareva Natural or introduced vegetation to be preserved Wonkifon nd restored (particularly to stabilise dunes) ! Mengatay RICE-GROWING IN MANGROVE ! Extensive expanse of rice-growing systems potentially threatened CONAKRY GN3-b Moderate expanse of rice-growing systems Maferinya potentially threatened ! Bofon Bassya Fandié ! Fotoba ! ! AND PERIURBAN AREA GN3 - CONAKRY URBAN GN3 - CONAKRY Iles de Los ! GN3-c Pointe du Hunier Forécariah Pointe du Tonnelier Kakossa ! Country borders GN4-a Sinkinin ROAD NETWORK ! Major road Minor road Kolente GN4-b Kabak Tertiary road Dykes TYPOLOGY OF SEA FRONTS Farmoreah ! URBAN AREAS 1 - MUD OR SANDY COAST REGULARLY Case study COVERED BY THE TIDE Dense urban fabric 1A- Apparent coastline of mangroves materialised by continuous barrier of trees Pamélap Loose urban fabric ! Konta 1B- Apparent coastline with discontinuous border o Benty ! Very loose urban fabric f mangroves and/or coastal mudflats ! EAM - GEOME, EOS.D2C - Environment and Development Network - www.eco-evaluation.org 1C- Apparent coastline typified by thin fringe of GN4-c Open space mangroves adjacent to locally rocky and/or GN4 - RICE GROWING Kambia solid hill topography ! Non discriminated Kédia urban areas Pointe Sallatouk ! 2 - SANDY OR SILT COAST LOCATED IN ISLANDS OF SOUTHERN GUINEA Hub intersection NATURALLY HIGHLY UNSTABLE SITES SIERRA LEONE 2A- Sandy or silt coast associated with mangroves and not covered by the tide Little Scarcies HYDROGRAPHY Rokupr 9° N 2B- Coastline of islets, sandbanks and insular splits ! Graduated water system 2C- Estuary and coastal river littoral zones SL1-a 9° N Bambaia ! Water body lagoon 3 - SANDY COAST WITH STRAIGHT LONGITUDINAL Kychom PROFILE ! Mambolo Dam reservoir 3A- Sandy coast with straight longitudinal profile, absence ! of back-lagoons, depressions or channels parallel to the shore less than 2km from the shoreline SL1-b WETLANDS AND MARSHES 3B- Sandy coast with straight longitudinal profile, presence Alluvial plains of back-lagoons, depressions or channels parallel to the shore (500m to 2km from the shoreline) Barlo ! Hydromorphic alluvial plains 3C- Sandy coast with straight longitudinal profile, presence of back-lagoons, depressions or channels parallel to the Gbenti Undifferentiated wetlands shore (less than 500m from the shoreline) ! Port Loko ! 4 - SANDY AND ROCKY COAST IN STEPS Salt marshes (sebkhras) (Headlands and coves) Margins of salt marshes (sebkhras) 4A- Wide coves with a low radius of curvature SL1 LEONE - NORTH SIERRA Konakridee 4B- Frequent rocky headlands ! Petifu Junction ! Mangroves 5 - ROCKY COAST Lungi This cartography is a working document provided for illustrative purposes only and is not intended to be used as a substitute ! 13° W Pepel 16° W 15° W for official topographic or hydrographic documents. Maritime country borders are not shown, as the boundary delimitation has no legal standing. 14° W !.