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  Democratic Republic of the Congo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This area is surrounded by plateaus merging into savannas in the south and southwest, by mountainous terraces in the west, and dense grasslands extending beyond the Congo River in the north.
The river and its tributaries (major offshoots include the Kasai, Sangha, Ubangi, Aruwimi, and Lulonga) form the backbone of Congolese economics and transportion, they have a drastic impact on the daily lives of the people.
Kinshasa and Brazzaville are actually on opposite sides of the river at the Pool (see NASA image), then the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), and then running past Boma into the Atlantic.
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 Democratic Republic of the Congo - Printer-friendly - MSN Encarta
Downstream from this point the river is navigable and arcs west, then south to Kinshasa, forming much of the boundary between the Republic of the Congo and the DRC.
Largely rural, the population is concentrated in the eastern highlands and along rivers.
The principal seaports are Matadi and Boma, on the lower Congo River, and Banana, at the river’s mouth.
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 Kasai - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
'KASAI, or Cassai, a river of Africa, the chief southern affluent of the Congo.
Portuguese travellers in the 18th century are believed to have reached the upper Kasai, but the first accurate knowledge of the river basin was obtained by David Livingstone, who reached the upper Kasai from the east and explored in part the upper Kwango (1854-1855).
Cameron and Paul Pogge crossed the upper Kasai in the early " seventies." The Kwa mouth was seen by H. Stanley in his journey down the Congo in 1877, and he rightly regarded it as the outlet of the Kwango, though not surmising it was also the outlet of the Kasai.
www.1911ency.org /K/KA/KASAI.htm   (952 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Congo River Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The river also has the second-largest flow in the world, behind the Amazon, and the second-largest watershed of any river, again trailing the Amazon and slightly ahead of the Mississippi.
Kinshasa and Brazzaville are on opposite sides of the river at the Pool, then the river narrows and falls through a number of cataracts in deep canyons (collectively known as the Livingstone Falls), running by Matadi and Boma, and into the sea at the small town of Muanda.
Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to navigate along the river's length and report that the Lualaba was not a source of the Nile as had been suggested.
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