Stream
Ebola River
250 km from source to mouth · DR Congo.
DR CongoFlows into Mongala River
In numbers
Length
250km
Average flow
320m³/s
Basin
22,800km²
Drop
109m
from 462 m to 353 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
250 km of river and 1 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 462 m
- 242 kmChute Maiwangu
- 250 kmMongala Riverat 353 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in Democratic Republic of the Congo
At the mouth it carries 320 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 7.8 seconds. It drops from 462 m to 353 m, 0.4 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 22,800 km², about the size of BZ. 465,000 people live in it. Highest water: July and from September to November; lowest: from January to March. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BusingaLargest city on its banks · 48,339 people
- Gbadolite Airport (BDT)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 102 km from the city
- Kayak and canoe2 put-ins and rapids mapped (OpenStreetMap)
- From December to FebruaryThe best months to visit
Ebola River, month by month
Highest water: July and from September to November
Lowest water: from January to March. Best months to visit: from December to February.
From about 93 m³/s in the lowest month to 780 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Ebola River: the basin in numbers
22,800 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 465,000people live in the basin
- 20/km²people per km²
- 464maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,664mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.5°Caverage air temperature
- 14%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 80% Forest
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Ebola River: what you find on the way
- 2Rapids
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.0 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Ebola River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
1waterfall on the riverCascadyas
Waterfalls (1)
On the river, by Cascadyas
- Chute Maiwangukm 264
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
In the same basin
Angola4,700 km41,800 m³/sKasai River
Republic of the Congo2,272 km12,000 m³/sUbangi River
Central African Republic1,060 km5,900 m³/sKwango RiverDR Congo1,770 km2,700 m³/sUeleDR Congo1,210 km1,500 m³/sLomami RiverDR Congo1,280 km3,000 m³/sSanghaRepublic of the Congo785 km2,500 m³/sMbomou RiverCentral African Republic800 km1,300 m³/sLuvua RiverDR Congo350 km600 m³/sSankuru RiverDR Congo1,200 km1,500 m³/sNearby
Rivers nearby
DR Congo1,210 km1,500 m³/s189 km awayMbomou RiverCentral African Republic800 km1,300 m³/s189 km awayLualaba RiverDR Congo1,800 km12,400 m³/s215 km awayAruwimi RiverDR Congo1,300 km1,600 m³/s376 km awayLulonga RiverDR Congo180 km1,800 m³/s412 km awayLomami RiverDR Congo1,280 km3,000 m³/s466 km awayTshuapa RiverDR Congo1,300 km3,600 m³/s467 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q934455) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Cascadyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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