The Aruwimi River ( Swahili : Mto Aruwimi , French : Rivière Aruwimi ) is a tributary of the Congo River , located to the north and east of the Congo.
6-724: The Aruwimi begins as the Ituri River , which rises near Lake Albert , in the savannas north of the Kibale River watershed. It then runs generally south southwest until it is joined by the Shari River which flows by Bunia. The Ituri then turns west, through the Ituri Forest , becoming the Aruwimi where the Nepoko (or Nepoki) River joins it, at the town of Bomili . The river continues westward, joining
12-509: A generally westward direction to Bomili in Tshopo province, where it is joined by the Nepoko River to form the Aruwimi. The Ituri is 650 kilometres (400 mi) long. The Aruwimi is 380 kilometres (240 mi) long, giving a combined length of 1,030 kilometres (640 mi). The river flows through the 63,000 square kilometres (24,000 sq mi) Ituri Rainforest . About one-fifth of
18-565: A handful of villages along its course, and crossed by roads in about four places. The Kango language ( SIL code KZY) is spoken by several thousand villagers just south of Avakubi, and upper reaches of the Ituri are inhabited by the Mbuti ( Pygmies ). The Aruwimi was explored by Henry Morton Stanley during his 1887 expedition to "rescue" Emin Pasha . The cataracts above Yambuya made it impossible to use
24-624: The Congo at Basoko . The length of the Aruwimi–Ituri-Nizi is about 1,287 km (800 mi), with the Ituri being about 650 kilometres (400 mi), the Nizi about 257 kilometres (160 mi) and the Aruwimi about 380 kilometres (240 mi). The Aruwimi is about 1.5 kilometres (0.93 mi) wide where it joins the Congo. The watershed of the Ituri/Aruwimi is almost entirely dense forest, with just
30-467: The mountains to the west of Lake Albert , about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) north of Kaladau . It flows generally south into Ituri province, and flows past Mongbwalu to the east. It is joined from the left by Shari River to the northeast of Irumu about 45 kilometres (28 mi) south-southwest of Bunia . It is joined from the left by the Malibongo River near Komanda Helipad. From there it flows in
36-617: The river for navigation, and the expedition had to go by land, with tremendous difficulty. Tributaries: Settlements: Ituri River The Ituri River ( French : Rivière Ituri ) 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 . The Ituri has its headwaters in province of Haut-Uélé in
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