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Matadi was near the site of the state of Vungu, which was first mentioned in 1535 [4] and was said to be destroyed in 1624. Matadi itself was founded by Sir Henry Morton Stanley in 1879. It was strategically important because it was the last navigable port going upstream on the Congo River; it became the furthest inland port in the Congo Free ...
The Matadi Bridge, also known as the OEBK Bridge for Organisation pour l’équipement de Banana-Kinshasa, and formerly known as Pont Maréchal in French, is a suspension bridge across the Congo River at Matadi, Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was completed in 1983 by a consortium of Japanese companies.
The port is situated in Banana Creek, an inlet about 1 km wide on the north bank of the Congo River's mouth. Port of Boma: Kongo Central: Banana|Boma: CDBOA: Medium-sized port. The maximum draft of the port is 6.7m. [4] The second-largest port of the country, after Matadi.
A large lake formed before the Congo River broke through this barrier, running through a narrow, rocky channel about 350 kilometres (220 mi) long from Kinshasa to Matadi. The river is navigable both above and below this stretch, called the lower Congo. [4] The upper portion of the Lower Congo starts with the steep Livingstone Falls just below ...
The Kwilu River originates in the hills near the Angolan border and enters the Congo some 100 km upstream from Matadi. The other is the Inkisi River , that flows in a northerly direction from the Uíge Province in Angola to the confluence with the Congo at Zongo some 80 km (50 mi) downstream from the twin capitals.
Matadi Bridge: 520 m (1,710 ft) 722 m (2,369 ft) Suspension Steel truss deck, steel pylons 91+520+91: National Road 1 Congo River. 1983: Matadi
River Date Opened State Coordinates Lat. Long. Matadi Bridge: road and rail bridge Kongo Central, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Congo: 1983 open Kongolo Bridge: road and rail bridge Tanganyika Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo: Lualaba: 1939/1968 open
The Matadi–Kinshasa Railway was built between 1890 and 1898 in order to bypass the series of rapids and falls which hindered access from the South Atlantic Ocean to the Congo Basin. [1] Its length is 366 km (227 mi) and it is run by Société commerciale des transports et des ports (SCTP) (until 2011, ONATRA ).