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The Congo–Lualaba–Luvua–Luapula–Chambeshi River system has an overall length of 4,700 km (2,900 mi), which makes it the world's ninth-longest river. The Chambeshi is a tributary of the Lualaba River , and Lualaba is the name of the Congo River upstream of Boyoma Falls , extending for 1,800 km (1,100 mi).
Between 1874 and 1877 Henry Morton Stanley traveled Central Africa east to west, exploring Lake Victoria, Lake Tanganyika and the Lualaba and Congo rivers. [1] He covered 7,000 miles (11,000 km) from Zanzibar in the east to Boma at the mouth of the Congo in the west. The expedition resolved several open questions concerning the geography of ...
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is the largest country of sub-Saharan Africa, occupying some 2,344,858 square kilometres (905,355 sq mi).[1] Most of the country lies within the vast hollow of the Congo River basin.[1] The vast, low-lying central area is a plateau-shaped basin sloping toward the west, covered by tropical rainforest ...
Luena, Lungwebungu, Luanginga, Chobe, Gwayi, Sanyati, Panhane, Luenha. The Zambezi (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers 1,390,000 km 2 (540,000 sq mi), [1][2] slightly less than half ...
Rwanda is located in East Africa, to the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, at the co-ordinates 2°00′S 30°0′E. At 26,338 square kilometres (10,169 sq mi), Rwanda is the world's 149th-largest country. [2] It is comparable in size to Haiti or the state of Massachusetts in the United States. [3][4] The entire country is at a high ...
The Republic of the Congo is located in the western part of central Africa, on the Equator. Congo has several important ports. The Republic of the Congo covers an area of 342,000 km², of which 341,500 km² is land while 500 km² is water. Congo claims 200 nautical miles (370 km) of territorial sea. The capital of the Republic of the Congo is ...
Livingstone Falls consist of a series of rapids dropping 900 feet (270 m) in 220 miles (350 km). They start downstream of Malebo Pool and end in Matadi in Bas-Congo.The Congo River has the second largest flow rate in the world after the Amazon, which has no falls or rapids (except near its sources).
Lake Mweru (also spelled Mwelu, Mwero) (Swahili: Ziwa Mweru) is a freshwater lake on the longest arm of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo.Located on the border between Zambia and Democratic Republic of the Congo, it makes up 110 kilometres (68 mi) of the total length of the Congo, lying between its Luapula River (upstream) and Luvua River (downstream) segments.