Dibaya-Lubwe (or Dibaya Lubue, Lubue) is a town in the

Kwilu Province Kwilu is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It's one of the 21 provinces created in the 2015 repartitioning. Kwilu, Kwango, and Mai-Ndombe provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Bandundu province. Kwil ...

of the

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. It is in

Idiofa Territory Idiofa Territory is an administrative area in the Kwilu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The capital is the town of Idiofa. Location The territory has an area of . The Loange River defines the eastern boundary of the territory, w ...

. The town lies on the south shore of the

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just below the point where it is joined by the

Lubue River The Lubue River runs from south to north through Idiofa territory, Kwilu province, Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally ...

. As of 2012 the population was estimated to be 38,933. The town, lying in eastern

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territory. The first European to it was the German explorer

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in June 1885. It became the site for

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processing, and was granted the status of a "''centre extra-coutumier''". By 1931 the town had grown into a commercial center.

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* * Populated places in Kwilu Province {{DRC-geo-stub