The Nepoko River is a river 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 ...
. It joins the
Ituri River
The Ituri River is a river of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the main tributary of the Aruwimi River, which forms where the Ituri meets the Nepoko River.
It gives its name to Ituri Province.
Course
The Ituri has its headwaters in pr ...
at the town of
Bomili to form the
Aruwimi River
The Aruwimi River is a tributary of the Congo River, located to the north and east of the Congo.Stanley, H.M., 1899, Through the Dark Continent, London: G. Newnes, Vol. One , Vol. Two
The Aruwimi begins as the Ituri River, which rises near Lake ...
.
The river separates different groups of the
Budu people Budu may refer to: Languages
* Budu language, a language of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
* Budu Dogon, a language of Mali
* Budu language (China), a language of China
Other uses
* Budu people, an ethnic group of the Democratic Republic ...
of
Wamba Territory
Wamba Territory is a part of the Haut-Uele province of 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 Cong ...
, who speak different dialects on the western
Ibambi side of the river and on the eastern
Wamba side, although they consider themselves one people.
The river divides the
Catholic Diocese of Wamba
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Wamba ( la, Vambaën(sis)) is a diocese located in the city of Wamba in the Ecclesiastical province of Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Apparently, during the tenure of Bishop Kataka Lucete, ther ...
into two.
It runs through the
Okapi Wildlife Reserve.
Its southern tributaries include the Uala, Afande, Mambo and Ngaue rivers.
The explorer
Wilhelm Junker
Wilhelm Junker ( rus, Василий Васильевич Юнкер; 6 April 184013 February 1892) was a Russian explorer of Africa. Dr. Junker was of German descent.
Born in Moscow, he studied medicine at Dorpat (now called University of Tart ...
reached the river on 6 May 1882. He described it as about a hundred yards wide at low water. The partly rocky banks, over thirty feet high, stood back to form flat margins fifty to sixty feet wide which were flooded at high water.
In the colonial era a car ferry operated across the river, although not always during high or low water.
It consisted of a number of dugout canoes lashed together sideways and covered with a wooden platform, and was pulled across the river by a cable.
References
Rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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