Omeonga is a town in the

Sankuru Sankuru is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Sankuru, Kasaï-Oriental, and Lomami provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Kasaï-Oriental province. San ...

province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies around south southeast of the nearest large town,

Katako-Kombe Katako-Kombe is a territory of Sankuru Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is part of the region known as Kasaï. It is traditionally considered the homeland of the Tetela people. It is also the birthplace of the Congo’s first ...

. The Lomami river also passes nearby. Chiefs or possessors of the name Omeonga are considered noble. It is also a name meaning "Man of Pillars" or "Noble".

Impact structure

The town lies near the center of a 30 km diameter depression, which is a proposed but unconfirmed ancient

impact structure An impact structure is a generally circular or craterlike geologic structure of deformed bedrock or sediment produced by impact on a planetary surface, whatever the stage of erosion of the structure. In contrast, an impact crater is the surface ...

called the "''Wembo-Nyama ring structure''".The Full Catalogue of the Earth's Impact structures
. Siberian Center For Global Catastrophes. Department of Mathematical Problems of Geophysics, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics. Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences. The roundness of the ring is underlined by a tributary of the Lomami river.E. Martellato; G. Cremonese; M. Massironi; and G. Monegato (2010)
Omeonga (Wembo-Nyama): Isale Hydrocode Simulations
Nördlingen Ries Crater Workshop A similar visual effect can be seen with

Manicouagan impact structure Manicouagan Reservoir (also Lake Manicouagan) is an annular lake in central Quebec, Canada, covering an area of . The lake island in its centre is known as René-Levasseur Island, and its highest point is Mount Babel. The structure was created ...

in central Quebec, Canada, where a ring of water surrounds the central René-Levasseur Island.

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Google Earth view of Omeonga and around
Populated places in Sankuru {{DRCongo-geo-stub

Impact structure

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