Bas-Uele District ( French : District du Bas-Uele , Dutch : District Beneden-Uele ) was a district of the Belgian Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo . It was formed from part of Uele District in 1912 and was later merged into Uele District, then split out again. There were various boundary changes. It roughly corresponded in area to the present Bas-Uélé province.
6-672: Bas-Uele District (Lower Uele District) was named after the Uele River , and covers the lower part of the river basin. To the west the river joins the Mbomou River to form the Ubangi River , which defined the northwest boundary of the colony. Most of the inhabitants of the Bas-Uele District, with a population of 900,000 in 2007, are Boa people . They live mainly through subsistence farming and hunting, with some river commerce. The district
12-491: The Orientale Province created in 1913. With the 1933 reorganization Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele were again combined into Uele District, and lay in the new Stanleyville Province . By 1954 Stanleyville Province had been renamed Orientale Province, and Uele District had again been split into Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele districts. A 1955–1957 map shows Bas-Uele District bordered by French territory to the north, Haut-Uele District to
18-638: The Uele joins the Mbomou River at Yakoma . Main tributaries to the Uele river are the Bomokandi River (left side) and Uere River (right side). The Uele–Mbomou confluence at Yakoma marks the origin of the Ubangi River , which in turn flows into the Congo River . The Uele is the longest tributary of the Ubangi. The combined Ubangi–Uele length is about 2,270 kilometres (1,410 mi). From satellite images, parts of
24-473: The east, Stanleyville District to the south and Mongala District to the west. The area was 148,300 square kilometres (57,300 sq mi) out of a total of 503,200 square kilometres (194,300 sq mi) for Orientale province as a whole. On 27 July 1962 the administration of Orientale Province was taken over by the central government. It was divided into the new provinces of Kibali-Ituri , Uélé and Haut-Congo . On 28 December 1966 Orientale Province
30-514: Was created by an arrêté royal of 28 March 1912, which divided the Congo into 22 districts. A 1912 map shows that the former Uele District had been broken into the Bas-Uele and Haut-Uele (Upper Uele) districts. Bas-Uele was bordered by French territory to the north, Haut-Uele to the east, Stanleyville and Aruwimi to the south, and Bangala and Ubangi to the west. The Bas-Uele District became part of
36-610: Was reunited. On 11 July 2015 it was split into the provinces of Bas-Uélé , Haut-Uélé , Ituri and Tshopo . Uele River The Uele , also known by the phonetically identical Uélé , Ouélé , or Welle River , is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . The Uele forms at Dungu , at the confluence of the Dungu and Kibali rivers , which both originate in the mountains near Lake Albert . Combined these rivers flow west for about 1,210 kilometres (750 mi), until
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