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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). Measured along with the Lualaba, the main tributary, the Congo River has a total length of 4,370 km (2,720 mi). It is the only major river to cross the equator twice. [11]
Stanley and his men reached the Portuguese outpost of Boma, around 100 kilometres (62 mi) from the mouth of the Congo River on the Atlantic Ocean, after 999 days on 9 August 1877. Muster lists and Stanley's diary (12 November 1874) show that he started with 228 people [ 3 ] : 163, 511 note 21 and reached Boma with 114 survivors, with him the ...
The Congo Deep-Sea Fan accounts for a surface of about 300,000 km 2 and at least 0.7 Mkm 3 of Cenozoic sediments, becoming one of the largest submarine fan systems in the world. [5] The fan extends over 1000 km from the Congo-Angola coast and was developed after the early Cretaceous rifting. The sediments includes quartz grains. [6]
Inga Falls on the Congo River is a group of rapids (or cataracts) downstream of the Livingstone Falls and the Pool Malebo. The Congo falls ~96 metres (315 ft) within this set of cataracts. The mean annual flow rate of the Congo River at Inga Falls is ~42,000 cubic metres per second (1,500,000 cu ft/s).
A cataract of Inga Falls Livingstone Falls as seen by Stanley Livingstone Falls map. Livingstone Falls (French: Chutes Livingstone; Dutch: Livingstonewatervallen), named for British explorer David Livingstone, are a succession of enormous rapids on the lower course of the Congo River in west equatorial Africa, downstream from Malebo Pool in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Isangi people living on the Congo River. The basin ends where the river empties into the Gulf of Guinea on the Atlantic Ocean. The basin is a total of 3.7 million square kilometers and is home to some of the largest undisturbed stands of tropical rainforest on the planet, in addition to large wetlands. Countries wholly or partially in the Congo ...
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 26 February 2025. Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo The Congo River forms much of the border between these two countries. The Congo Basin comes from the river. Congo or The Congo may refer to: Congo River, in central Africa Congo Basin, the sedimentary basin of the river Democratic ...
A stamp of the Congo Free State, used in Boma around 1900 View to the north from Boma, 1889. Boma is a port town on the Congo River, some 100 kilometres (62 mi) upstream from the Atlantic Ocean, in the Kongo Central Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), adjacent to the border with Angola. It had an estimated population of ...