Umugezi wa Congo

Umugezi wa Congo, ahahoze hitwa kandi ku mugezi wa Zayire, ni uruzi rwa kabiri rurerure muri Afurika, rugufi kuruta Nili, ndetse nu mugezi wa kabiri munini ku isi ukurikije ubwinshi bw’amazi, ukurikira Amazone gusa. Ninzuzi zimbitse ku isi, zifite uburebure bwa metero 219.5.  Gahunda ya Congo Lualaba   ifite uburebure bwa kolometero  4,700, ituma iba umugezi wa cyenda muremure kwisi. Chambeshi ni uruzi rw'umugezi wa Lualaba, naho Lualaba ni izina ry'umugezi wa Congo hejuru y’isumo rya Boyoma, rikagera kuri kolometero 1,800. .

Upimiye hamwe na Lualaba, uruzi runini, uruzi rwa congo rufite uburebure bwa kilometero 4,370. Ninzuzi nini yonyine yambuka Ekwateri kabiri. Forbath, Peter. The River Congo (1979), p. 6. "Not until it crosses the Equator will it at last turn away from this misleading course and, describing a remarkable counter-clockwise arc first to the west and then to the southwest, flow back across the Equator and on down to the Atlantic.In this the Congo is exceptional. No other major river in the world crosses the Equator even once, let alone twice." Ikibaya cya Kongo gifite ubuso bungana na 4,000,000 km  , cyangwa 13% by'ubutaka bwose bwa Afurika.

 Izina 
Izina Congo rikomoka mu Bwami bwa Kongo rimwe riherereye ku nkombe y'amajyepfo y'uruzi. Ubwami nabwo bwitiriwe abasangwabutaka Bantu Kongo, bazwi mu kinyejana cya 17 nka "Esikongo".  Amajyepfo y'Ubwami bwa Kongo hakwiye gushyirwaho ubwami bwa Kakongo, bwavuzwe mu 1535. Abraham Ortelius yanditseho "Manicongo" nk'umujyi uri ku nkombe z'umugezi ku ikarita ye y'isi yo mu 1564. Manikongo was properly the title of the kings of Kongo; their capital was at the site of modern M'banza-Kongo, capital of Angola's northwestern Zaire Province. Ortelius had no knowledge of the orography of Africa and drew fictitious courses for its rivers; his Congo upstream of its estuary turns sharply south, flowing through what would correspond to Angola and Botswana. Amazina yimiryango muri Kongo birashoboka ko yakomotse kumagambo yo guteranira hamwe cyangwa guterana kwimiryango. Izina rya kijyambere ryabaturage ba Kongo cyangwa Bakongo ryatangijwe mu ntangiriro yikinyejana cya 20. 

 Ikibaya n'amasomo 
Ikibaya cy'amazi cya congo gifite kilometero  4,014,500,  agace kanini kuruta Ubuhinde . Kongo isohoka mu kanwa kayo iri hagati ya 23,000 to 75,000 m  , ugereranije ni 41,000 m   .  Uruzi rutwara buri mwaka toni miliyoni 86 zubutaka bwahagaritswe mu nyanja ya Atalantika hamwe n’inyongera ya 6 ku ijana yuburiri . 
 Left tributary
 Right tributary
 Length (km)
 Basin size (km²)
 Average discharge (m3/s)
  Lower Congo
(river mouth to Kinshasa)
  M'pozo
  170
  79
  Kwilu
  284
 6,500
 89
  Inkisi
  392
 13,500
 291
   Djoué
 175
 6,225
 158
  Middle Congo
(Kinshasa to the Boyoma Falls)
  Nsele
  193
 4,500
 77
  Lufimi
  250
 11,500
 199
  Kasai
  2,153
 884,370
 11,600
   Léfini
  14,000
 423
   Nkeni
  8,000
 249
   Alima
 500
 21,030
 700
   Likouala
 615
 69,800
 1,053
   Sangha
 1,395
 191,953
 2,471
  Irebu
  35
 7,380
 106
   Ubangi
 2,299
 651,918
 5,936
  Ruki
  1,200
 173,790
 4,500
  Ikelemba
  345
 12,510
 222
  Lulonga
  705
 76,950
 2,040
   Mongala
 590
 52,200
 709
   Itimbiri
 535
 50,490
 773
   Aruwimi
 1,287
 116,100
 2,200
  Lomami
  1,798
 109,080
 2,062
   Lindi
 600
 60,300
 1,200
  Upper Congo
(Lualaba; upstream from the Boyoma Falls)
   Maiko
   319
   Lilo
   192
  Ruiki
    126
  Lilo
    93
   Lowa
 600
 49,590
 1,625
   Ulindi
 690
 30,240
 902
  Kasuku
    176
   Ambe
   68
   Elila
 670
 27,360
 678
  Lueki
    59
  Lubutu
    57
   Kunda
   41
   Luama
 320
 25,000
 221
   Lukuga
 350
 271,580
 271
  Luvidjo
  240
  70
   Luvua
 373
 265,260
 600
   Kalumen-
gongo
   67
  Lovoi
    186
   Lufira
 590
 51,480
 502
  Lubudi
  370
 27,500
 192
Kongo yo hepfo (uruzi rwi nzuzi kugera Kinshasa ) Hasi ya Kinshasa, kuva kumugezi wa Banana, hari imigezi minini.

Hagati ya Kongo ( Kinshasa kugera ku Isumo rya Boyoma )

 Kwa-Kassai (ibumoso)
 Fimi
 Lukenie
 Kwango
 Kwilu
 Sankuru
 Alima (iburyo)
 Likouala - Mossaka (iburyo)
 Sangha (iburyo)
 Kadéï (570 km, 41.000 km², 466 m³ / s)
 Ubangi (iburyo)
 Mbomou
 Uele
 Tshuapa cyangwa Ruki (ibumoso)
 Lulonga (ibumoso)
 Lopori
 Maringa
 Mongala (iburyo)
 Itimbiri (iburyo)
 Aruwimi (iburyo)
 Lomami (ibumoso)
 Lindi (iburyo)

 Akamaro k'ubukungu 

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 Inkomoko rusange 


 Forbath, Peter (1979). The River Congo: The Discovery, Exploration and Exploitation of the World's Most Dramatic River. New York: E. P. Dutton,.  ISBN 0-525-47573-7.

 Ihuza ryo hanze 

 Umushinga Wihishe Urugendo rwa Royal Geography Society :
 Umugezi wa Kongo
 Amashusho yerekana amajwi: Uruzi rwa Kongo: Gukurikiza inzira ya Sir Henry Morton Stanley - Tim Butcher avuga urugendo rwe muri Kongo mu nzira y’umushakashatsi wo mu kinyejana cya 19 Sir Henry Morgan Stanley.
 Bibliografiya ku mutungo w'amazi n'Isomero mpuzamahanga ry'amahoro Isomero
 Ikarita yikibaya cyumugezi wa congo kumutungo wamazi eAtlas
 Umushinga wa Kongo, Inzu Ndangamurage y’amateka Kamere y'Abanyamerika
Ikiciro:Congo