page_title: Uele District
section_title: Landscape
hierarchical_section_title: Uele District / Landscape
caption_attribution_description: Running through the centre of Dungu is the Uele river.
context_page_description: Uele District was a district of the Congo Free State and the Belgian Congo.
  It roughly corresponded to the current provinces of Bas-Uélé and Haut-Uélé.
context_section_description: The Uele District, shown as the Uellé District on an 1897 map of the Congo Free State, was named after the Uele River.
  The river flows though the district and further west joins the Mbomou River (or Bomu River) to form the Ubangi River, which defined the northeastern border of the Belgian Congo.
  The French colonies were to the north of the district and the British-controlled Lado Enclave to the east, on the west bank of the Nile.
  To the west were the Ubangi and Bangala districts, and to the south were the Aruwimi and Stanley Falls districts.
  A 1956 description of the district said the north of Uele is covered with shrub savannas interspersed with galleries and fragments of forest. Savannas with Encephalartos septentrionalis  occupy the central part while the east and west are characterized by savannas of Lophira. The southern part of the District is covered by a dryland rain forest of Macrolobium (Gilbertiodendron dewevrei). 
  Its boundary with the northern savannas lies a little north of the Uele then approximately follows the Bomokandi River.
  Along this boundary the forest is marked by deep anthropogenic alterations.
  The forest region is a gently undulating plain with a slight slope to the southwest towards the center of the basin.
  The northern grassy plain has better marked valleys. 
  Rocky sills and rapids cut the streams, which can be dammed.
  From 400 metres (1,300 ft) at Aketi, the altitude gradually rises to the north and east to reach 650 metres (2,130 ft) at Ango and over 800 metres (2,600 ft) in the east.
caption: Uele River at Dungu
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