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This is a list of rivers in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
The Congo River is the most powerful river in Africa. During the rainy season over 50,000 cubic metres (1,800,000 cu ft) of water per second flows into the Atlantic Ocean. Opportunities for the Congo River and its tributaries to generate hydropower are therefore enormous.
In the Congo a commune can now be an urban subdivision of a city, a country town, or in some cases a mostly rural area attached to a city. An older term, collectivity (fr. collectivité ), is sometimes used for convenience to refer to both a sector and a chiefdom.
The Republic of the Congo is divided into 12 départements (départements). Departments are divided into communes and/or districts; [1] which are further subdivided into urban communities (communautés urbaines) and rural communities (communautés rurales); which are further subdivided into quarters or neighborhoods (quartiers) and villages.
3 Subdivisions. 4 References. ... Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... Rivers include the Balima River, Tele River, Lemoi River, Rubi River. [2]
This is a list of rivers in the Republic of the Congo. This list is arranged by Drainage basin , with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name. Atlantic Ocean
D.R. Congo is one of six African states that straddles the equator; it's the largest African state that has the equator passing through it. Very narrow strip of land that controls the lower Congo River and is the only outlet to South Atlantic Ocean; dense tropical rainforest in the central river basin and eastern highlands.
Human settlements can be one of the following subdivisions of the DR Congo: cities, communes, groupings (fr. groupements) and villages; or may not be an administrative division at all. Towns and cities