Tenke is a town in the
Lualaba 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 Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
.
Economy
The main economic activity of the city is mining, mainly from the
Tenke Fungurume Mine.
Another important economic activity is logistics services.
Transport
Road
The city is crossed by
Transafican Highway 9 (TAH 9), which connects it to the cities of
Likasi
Likasi (formerly official names: Jadotville ( French) and Jadotstad (Dutch)) is a city in Haut-Katanga Province, in the south-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Demographics
Likasi has a population of around 635,000 (2015). During the 1990 ...
and
Kolwezi
Kolwezi or Kolwesi is the capital city of Lualaba Province in the south of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, west of Likasi. It is home to an airport and a railway to Lubumbashi. Just outside of Kolwezi there is the static inverter plant of ...
.
Rail
It is the junction of the national railway network of Congo, connecting the
Benguela railway to the
Cape to Cairo Railway
The Cape to Cairo Railway was an unfinished project to create a railway line crossing Africa from south to north. It would have been the largest and most important railway of that continent. It was planned as a link between Cape Town in Sout ...
.
Rovos trail of two oceans Angola
The Luxury Train Club. 2009
See also
* Railway stations in DRCongo
Railway stations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) include:
Maps
UN Map WestUN Map East*
Stations served by passenger trains
Stations served by rail
Existing
Matadi–Kinshasa Railway
* Ango-Ango
* Matadi
* Mpozo
...
References
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Populated places in Lualaba Province