Pende

The Pendé rises in the high country to the north of Bouar and flows towards the rivers of the Lake Chad basin. Its headwaters lie close to the divide that separates those northern waters from the tributaries of the Congo. Travellers crossing between the Sangha and the Pendé passed from one great drainage basin to the other, through the wooded country of central Africa.

The later city of Paoua lies here.