River
Lulonga River
180 km from source to mouth · DR Congo.
DR CongoFlows into River Congo
In numbers
Length
180km
Average flow
1,800m³/s
Basin
77,000km²
Drop
19m
from 325 m to 306 m
Country
1
The journey
From source to mouth
180 km of river and 3 stops on the way: 1 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 325 m
- 0 kmBasankusu41,141 people
- 9 kmLopori Rivertributary
- 9 kmMaringa Rivertributary
- 180 kmRiver Congoat 306 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 1,763 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 1.4 seconds. Its basin covers 77,000 km², about the size of PA. 1.0 million people live in it. Highest water: from October to November. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- BasankusuLargest city on its banks · 41,141 people
- Mbandaka Airport (MDK)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 215 km from the city
- From December to February and JulyThe best months to visit
Lulonga River, month by month
Highest water: from October to November
Best months to visit: from December to February and July.
From about 930 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,600 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
Lulonga River: the basin in numbers
82,938 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 1.0millionpeople live in the basin
- 12/km²people per km²
- 411maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,988mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.9°Caverage air temperature
- 6%protected areas
What covers the basin
- 86% 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.
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
Lulonga 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: Lopori River, Maringa River
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/sLomami RiverDR Congo1,280 km3,000 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/sNearby
Rivers nearby
DR Congo1,300 km3,600 m³/s64 km awayUbangi RiverCentral African Republic1,060 km5,900 m³/s148 km awaySanghaRepublic of the Congo785 km2,500 m³/s274 km awayDja RiverRepublic of the Congo523 km800 m³/s281 km awayEbola RiverDR Congo250 km320 m³/s412 km awayLukenie RiverDR Congo1,014 km1,700 m³/s376 km awayKwango RiverDR Congo1,770 km2,700 m³/s458 km awayKasai RiverRepublic of the Congo2,272 km12,000 m³/s490 km awayWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2634215) · 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 |
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