The Lualaba is the headstream of the Congo River, running from the vicinity of Lubumbashi north to Kisangani, where the Congo officially begins. The Lualaba was once considered a possibility for the source of the Nile, until Henry Morton Stanley journeyed down it and proved that it drained into the Atlantic Ocean. Image of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, taken by NASA; the Congo River is visible in the center of the photograph Length 4,380 km Elevation of the source m Average discharge 41,800 m³/s Area watershed 3,680,000 km² Origin Mouth Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Dem. ... Lubumbashi is the second largest city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, (population 500,000) is a city in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in Central Africa. ... The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nīl), in Africa, is one of the two... Henry Morton Stanley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ...
The Lualaba serves as the northern and western boundary of the Upemba National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The Luvua River is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. ... Upemba National Park is a large park in the Katanga province of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
The river, the width of which varies from 250 to 1200 yds., is almost unnavigable until below the Johnston Falls (Mambilima of the natives), a series of rapids extending from 11 io' to 1o 3o' S. Below the falls the river is navigable by steamer all the way to Lake Mwerua distance of loo m.
The Lualaba, also known as Nzilo, which is the main stream of the Kamolondo, rises at an altitude of,4700 ft., in 264o' E., just north of 12 S.the watershed of the western head-streams of the Congo being everywhere north of that parallel.
East of the Lualababetween it and the Luapularises the river Lufira.
The LualabaRiver, considered to be the upper Congo River, rises in SE Congo (Kinshasa), flows north over rapids and falls to Bukama, and thence across a vast plain and through a series of marshy lakes (Kabwe, Kabele, Upemba) to receive the Luvua River at Ankoro.
The river is continued offshore by a c.500-mi-long (800-km) submarine canyon that is c.4,000 ft (1,220 m) deep.
It became known as the Zaïre River (a corruption of the local name Mzadi meaning “great water”) and was later referred to as the Congo River (for the Kongo kingdom located near its mouth); it was called Zaïre River by the government of Zaïre (now Congo [Kinshasa]) from 1971 to 1997.
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