Boyoma Falls
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| Location | Lualaba River, Kisangani, Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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| Type | Cataract |
| Total Height | 200 feet or 60 meters |
| Average Width | 4,500 feet or 1,372 meters |
| Average Flow Rate | 17,000 cubic meters/sec or 600,000 cubic feet/sec |
| Watercourse | Lualaba River |
Boyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls, consists of seven cataracts extending over 100 km on the Lualaba River near Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At the bottom of the falls the Lualaba becomes the Congo River. It is the world's highest-volume waterfall, seeing 17,000,000 liters of water rush by per second, with a total drop of 60 meters.
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