Lomami

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Lomami River is a significant tributary of the Congo River. The river is around 1,280 kilometers (800 miles) long. It runs north, west, and parallel to the Congo River. The Lomami River rises in the country's south, between Kamina and the Congo–Zambezi split. It runs through Lubao, Tshofa, Kombe, Bolaiti, Opala, and Irema before entering the Congo at Isangi.

On January 6, 1877, Henry Morton Stanley arrived at the junction of the two rivers, "the affluent Lumami, which Livingstone called 'Young's river,' entered the mainstream, via a mouth 600 yards wide, between low banks heavily covered with trees." M. Janssen, Governor-General of the Congo State, investigated the Lomani river upstream from Isangi on the Ville de Bruxelles in October 1889. He was halted by rapids at a latitude of 4°27'2" S after steaming for 116 hours. A number of biological species have been named after the river, including the monkey Cercopithecus lomamiensis and the flowering plant Pavetta lomamiensis.

Total Length: 794 miles