Cestos River

{{Short description|River in West Africa}}

{{Infobox river

| name = Cestos

| image = Liberia Cestos River.png

| image_size = 250px

| image_caption = Liberia Cestos River

| map =

| map_size =

| map_caption =

| source1_location = Nimba Range, Guinea

| subdivision_type1 = Countries

| subdivision_name1 = {{hlist|Guinea|Côte d'Ivoire|Liberia}}

| length_km = 476

| length_ref = {{cite web|url=https://www.riversnetwork.org/V1/index.php/component/content/?view=article&id=157&catid=209&Itemid=179|title=North Africa-West Coast}}

| discharge1_location=Near mouth

| discharge1_avg =(Period: 1979–2015) {{cvt|18.35|km3/year|m3/s|abbr=on}}{{cite web|url=http://twap-rivers.org/indicators|title=River Basins}}

| mouth_location = Atlantic Ocean

| mouth_coordinates =

| river_system= Cestos River

| tributaries_left=

| tributaries_right=

| basin_size_km2 = 12,723

| basin_size_ref = {{cite web|url=http://twap-rivers.org/indicators|title=River Basins}}

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The Cestos River, also known as Nuon or Nipoué river,{{cite web| url=http://www.tlcafrica.com/tlc_rivers.htm| title=Liberia Waterways| publisher=The Liberian Connection| accessdate=8 August 2014| archive-date=5 February 2012| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205194252/http://www.tlcafrica.com/tlc_rivers.htm| url-status=usurped}} 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.{{cite web|author=Ramsar Sites Information Service|title=Wetlands International Ramsar Sites Information Service: Liberia|url=http://ramsar.wetlands.org/Portals/15/LIBERIA.pdf|accessdate=2008-08-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728174712/http://ramsar.wetlands.org/Portals/15/LIBERIA.pdf|archive-date=2011-07-28|url-status=dead}} It forms the northern third of the international boundary between Liberia and Ivory Coast.

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."Rivercess Falls to Allied Forces". Monrovia Daily News, 1993-05-10, 1/6.