Guinea Current


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<figure class="mw-halign-right" id="mwBg" rel="cx:Figure" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a class="mw-file-description" href="./File:South_Atlantic_Gyre.png" id="mwBw"><img class="mw-file-element" data-file-height="534" data-file-type="bitmap" data-file-width="674" decoding="async" height="277" id="mwCA" resource="./File:South_Atlantic_Gyre.png" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/South_Atlantic_Gyre.png/350px-South_Atlantic_Gyre.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/South_Atlantic_Gyre.png/525px-South_Atlantic_Gyre.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d4/South_Atlantic_Gyre.png 2x" width="350" /></a><figcaption id="mwCQ"><span class="cx-segment" data-segmentid="4">The South Atlantic Gyre.</span></figcaption></figure>
<p id="mwCg"><span class="cx-segment" data-segmentid="5">The <b id="mwCw">Guinea Current</b> is a slow warm water current that flows to the east along the <a class="cx-link" data-linkid="6" href="./Guinea_(region)" id="mwDA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Guinea (region)">Guinea</a> coast of <a class="cx-link" data-linkid="7" href="./West_Africa" id="mwDQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="West Africa">West Africa</a>. </span><span class="cx-segment" data-segmentid="8">It has some similarity to the <a class="cx-link" data-linkid="9" href="./Equatorial_Counter_Current" id="mwDg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Equatorial Counter Current">Equatorial Counter Current</a> in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.<sup about="#mwt9" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw="{&#34;name&#34;:&#34;ref&#34;,&#34;attrs&#34;:{},&#34;body&#34;:{&#34;id&#34;:&#34;mw-reference-text-cite_note-1&#34;}}" id="cite_ref-1" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./Guinea_Current#cite_note-1" id="mwDw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 1;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwEA">[1]</span></a></sup></span></p>

<h2 id="2fa97693b70fa87b95b2d1bdf9558e"><span class="cx-segment" data-segmentid="10">See also</span></h2>
<ul id="mwEg"><li id="mwEw"><a class="mw-redirect cx-link" data-linkid="12" href="./Ocean_currents" id="mwFA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ocean currents"><span class="cx-segment" data-segmentid="11">Ocean currents</span></a></li>
<li id="mwFQ"><a class="mw-redirect cx-link" data-linkid="14" href="./Oceanic_gyres" id="mwFg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Oceanic gyres"><span class="cx-segment" data-segmentid="13">Oceanic gyres</span></a></li>
<li id="mwFw"><a class="cx-link" data-linkid="16" href="./Physical_oceanography" id="mwGA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Physical oceanography"><span class="cx-segment" data-segmentid="15">Physical oceanography</span></a></li></ul>

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Eco-1069: Guinea Current

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