Kogin Ogun wata hanya ce ta ruwa a Najeriya wacce ke ratsawa zuwa tafkin Legas.[1]

Kogin Ogun
General information
Tsawo 300 km
Labarin ƙasa
Map
Tsarin Daidaiton Labarin Kasa 6°45′N 3°20′E / 6.75°N 3.34°E / 6.75; 3.34
Kasa Najeriya
River mouth (en) Fassara Bight of Benin (en) Fassara

Darasi da amfani

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Kogin ya tashi ne a cikin jihar Sepeteri Oyo kusa da Shaki a kogin8°41′0″N 3°28′0″E / 8.68333°N 3.46667°E / 8.68333; 3.46667 kuma ya bi ta jihar Ogun zuwa jihar Legas.[2] Kogin ya ratsa ta ne daga madatsar ruwan Ikere a karamar hukumar Iseyin ta jihar Oyo. Adadin tafki shine 690 million cubic metres (560,000 acre⋅ft) .[3] Ruwan tafki ya mamaye filin shakatawa na Old Oyo, yana ba da wuraren shakatawa ga masu yawon bude ido, kuma kogin yana gudana ta wurin shakatawa.[4] Kogin Ofiki, wanda kuma ya taso kusa da Shaki, shi ne babban kogin Ogun.[ana buƙatar hujja]Kogin magudanar ruwa, yana hayewa ne ta Kogin Oyan wanda ke ba da ruwa ga Abeokuta da Legas.[ana buƙatar hujja]A jama'a ke da yawa, ana amfani da kogin don wanka, wanka da sha. Hakanan yana aiki azaman magudanar ruwa don galibin sharar fage daga abattoirs dake gefen kogin.[2]

A cikin addinin Yarbawa, Yemoja shine allahntakar kogin Ogun. Catechist Charles Phillips, mahaifin Charles Phillips wanda daga baya ya zama Bishop na Ondo, ya rubuta a cikin 1857 cewa kogin Ogun galibi mutanen da ke zaune a bakinsa ne suke bautawa tun daga hawansa har zuwa lokacin da ya shiga cikin tafkin.[5] Kogin ya bi ta tsakiyar tsohuwar Daular Oyo. An raba Metropolitan Oyo zuwa larduna shida da uku a yammacin kogin Ogun sannan uku a gabashin kogin. [6] A wani lokaci, kogin ya kafa wata muhimmiyar hanya ga ’yan kasuwa da ke jigilar kayayyaki ta kwalekwale a tsakanin Abeokuta da Lagos Colony.[7]

Manazarta

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  1. Fluid Flow Interactions in Ogun River, Nigeria
  2. 2.0 2.1 A.A. Ayoade, A.A. Sowunmi & H.I. Nwachukwu (2004). "Gill asymmetry in Labeo ogunensis from Ogun river, Southwest Nigeria" (PDF). Rev. Biol. Trop . 52 (1): 171–175.
  3. L. Berga, ed. (2006). Dams and Reservoirs, Societies and Environment in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Dams in the Societies of the 21st Century, 22nd International Congress on Large Dams (ICOLD), Barcelona, Spain, 18 June 2006. Taylor & Francis. p. 314. ISBN 0-415-40423-1
  4. "Old Oyo National Park" . Nigeria National Park Service. Archived from the original on 16 December 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2010.
  5. McKenzie, Peter Rutherford (1997). Hail Orisha!: a phenomenology of a West African religion in the mid- nineteenth century . BRILL. p. 30. ISBN 90-04-10942-0
  6. Stride, G.T. & C. Ifeka (1971). Peoples and Empires of West Africa: West Africa in History 1000–1800 . Edinburgh: Nelson. p. 296. ISBN 0-17-511448-X .amp. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. Foreign and Commonwealth Office (1859). British and foreign state papers, Volume 54 . H.M.S.O.