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Luizi is a meteorite impact structure that lies on the Kundelungu Plateau of
Haut-Katanga Haut-Katanga (French for "Upper Katanga") is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Katanga, Haut-Lomami, Lualaba, and Tanganyika provinces are the result of the dismember ...
province, in an underexplored region of southeastern
Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
. The crater, ~17 kilometer in diameter, is visible from satellite imagery, and has been confirmed in 2011 b
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et al. as being caused by a large impact event. This complex meteorite impact crater is so far the only recognized one in the
Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
and even in the whole Central Africa. The crater was initially described as a semi-circular basin by German geologist E. Grosse in 1919.E. Grosse, 1919. Grundlinien der Geologie und Petrographie des östlichen Katanga. ''Neues Jahrbuch Mineralogie, Geologie and Paläontologie'', 42, 272–419
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Luapula River The Luapula River is a section of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo. It is a transnational river forming for nearly all its length part of the border between Zambia and the DR Congo. It joins Lake Bangweulu (wholly in Zambia) to Lake ...


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Impact craters of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Haut-Katanga Province {{regional-geology-stub