The Djoué River is a river of the Republic of the Congo. It is a right tributary of the

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Course

The Djoué River rises in the

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to the north of Mayama, and flows through that town. It then follows a meandering southeast course through Ngoma-Tsétse in the Brazzaville Department and through the west of the city of

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, entering the Congo where it leaves the

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. The river flows through the Kintamo Rapids at its mouth, described by the English explorer

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on 12 March 1877 as having an impressive beauty rarely equaled.

Ramsar site

At its mouth the river flows through the

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and clarified with

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and

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Hydroelectricity

There is a gravity dam with a head and hydroelectric power plant on the river less than from the city center, built in the 1950s. In March 2013 Andritz Hydro Switzerland was awarded a contract to rehabilitate and upgrade HPP Djoué. The power plant had been out of operation since April 2007, when the control room was flooded, and the tailrace channel had been completely silted up by the biannual floods of the Congo River. The renovated plant would supply 2 x 9.06MW.

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