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Which river drains the Mauritanian-Senegal Basin?
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Western Africa
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The Sénégal River drains the Senegal-Mauritanian Basin.12
The river, which forms the boundary between Mauritania and Senegal for much of its course, flows through the basin's lower valley before reaching the Atlantic Ocean.3