Boyoma Falls
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 Boyoma Stanley 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 m³/s or 600,000 ft³/s |
| Watercourse | Lualaba River |
Boyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls, consists of seven cataracts, each no more than 15' high, extending over 10 km (6 miles)along a curve of the Lualaba River between the river port towns of Ubundu and Kisangani in the Orientale region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. At Kisangani, at the bottom of the falls, the Lualaba becomes the Congo River flowing generally westward. It has a total drop of 61 meters (200 feet). A rail line goes around the falls, connecting Kisangani and Ubundu.
It currently holds the record of water-flow, its average being 600,000 cubic feet a second.
Its peak record is currently 1,834,000 cubic feet a second
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