River
Lomami River
1,280 km from source to mouth · DR Congo.
DR CongoFlows into River Congo5th longest in DR Congo
In numbers
Length
1,280km
Average flow
3,000m³/s
Basin
110,000km²
Drop
203m
from 573 m to 370 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
1,280 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmState of Katangaat 573 m
- 1,280 kmRiver Congoat 370 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
At the mouth it carries 3,000 m³/s on average: 1.2 Olympic pools every second. It drops from 573 m to 370 m, 0.2 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 110,000 km², about the size of CU. 1.6 million people live in it. Highest water: from December to January; lowest: August. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- YangambiLargest city on its banks · 62,082 people
- Bangoka International Airport (FKI)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 105 km from the city
- On the water15 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to JulyThe best months to visit
Lomami River, month by month
Highest water: from December to January
Lowest water: August. Best months to visit: from June to July.
From about 1,100 m³/s in the lowest month to 3,000 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
Lomami River: the basin in numbers
104,162 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.6millionpeople live in the basin
- 15/km²people per km²
- 630maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,566mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.4°Caverage air temperature
- 3%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 78% Forest
- 5% Cropland
- 7% Pasture
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
Lomami River: what you find on the way
- 15Ferry piersBac Karushe and 14 more
From OpenStreetMap, within 2.4 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Lomami 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.
1mountain at the sourcePeakyas
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.
Photos
Lomami River in pictures
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
It flows into
River Congo
Angola4,700 km41,800 m³/sTributaries (2)
Also: Lukashi, Lobaye
In the same basin
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/sSanghaRepublic of the Congo785 km2,500 m³/sEbola RiverDR Congo250 km320 m³/sMbomou RiverCentral African Republic800 km1,300 m³/sLuvua RiverDR Congo350 km600 m³/sSankuru RiverDR Congo1,200 km1,500 m³/sAruwimi RiverDR Congo1,300 km1,600 m³/sWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q753765) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed along the river network from the point 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 | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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