-
Boyoma Falls (Swahili:
Maporomoko ya Maji ya
Boyoma, French:
chutes de
Boyoma, Dutch: Boyomawatervallen),
formerly known as
Stanley Falls (French: Chutes...
- "The Post
Stanley Falls," "The Falls," or
colloquially "
Boyoma" (the
indigenous name for
Boyoma Falls), the
settlement was
consistently identified as "Kisangani"...
- 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...
- and Lake Mweru. The
river flows generally west from
Kisangani just
below Boyoma Falls, then
gradually bends southwest, p****ing by Mbandaka,
joining with...
- (Port-Empain). From
Kindu up to the
Boyoma Falls at Ubundu, the
stream is
navigable again for more than 300 kilometres. The
Boyoma Falls or
Stanley Falls are made...
- The only
wider falls are
extremely large rapid-like falls, such as the
Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls). With the
flooding of the Guaíra
Falls in 1982, Iguazu...
- the same name. It is on the
Lualaba River, or
Upper Congo, just
above the
Boyoma Falls. As the
river is not
navigable from here
downstream to Kisangani,...
-
Morton Stanley,
Tippu Tip
became a
governor of the "Stanley
Falls District" (
Boyoma Falls) in Leopold's
Congo Free State,
before being involved in the Congo–Arab...
-
Kisangani and on the
lower reaches of the
Boyoma Falls. As a result, the
seventh and last
cataract on the
Boyoma is
named the
Wagenia Falls.
Because of low...
- here, they had
higher flow rate and
bigger level drop than more
famous Boyoma Falls in Africa.
Currently these rapids are
submerged by the
reservoir of...
