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14-590: Ngaliema is situated in the west of Kinshasa. It stretches south towards Mont Ngaliema and along the main road linking Kinshasa and the city of Matadi in Bas-Congo . The boundary between Ngaliema and the Mont Ngafula commune is defined by the Lukunga River . In addition to the communities of Binza Ozone, Binza Météo, Binza Delvaux and Binza I.P.N., the area also accommodates: The American School of Kinshasa (TASOK)

28-575: A nearby hill. A power station on the M'pozo River supplies power to Matadi. The maximum draft of the port is 8.2m. The Navy of the Democratic Republic of the Congo maintains one operational command at the port. Currently, larger ships are required to transfer cargo to smaller vessels in the Republic of Congo's Pointe-Noire port. For this reason, the development of a deep-sea port at Port Banana

42-571: Is in Ngaliema. This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Matadi Matadi is the chief sea port of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the capital of the Kongo Central province, adjacent to the border with Angola . It had a population of 245,862 (2004). Matadi is situated on the left bank of

56-455: Is the famous Matadi Bridge , the only one along the entire lower and middle reaches of the huge Congo River . Therefore, the main transcontinental flow of cars from the vast northwestern part of Africa to the south of the African continent passes through Matadi. Matadi Bridge, a suspension bridge 722 m- long with a main span of 520 m, built in 1983, crosses the river just south of Matadi, carrying

70-524: Is the furthest upriver, three ports are located within it, the others being Boma and Banana in DR Congo and Soyo in Angola . Matadi serves as a major import and export point for the whole nation. Chief exports are coffee and timber. The state fishing company " Pemarza " uses the port to supply fish to Kinshasa. Tshimpi Airport is nearby but is reportedly inactive because of continued warfare. In Matadi there

84-598: The Atlantic Ocean coast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo at the mouth of the Congo River . It is situated in Kongo Central Province, and has a population of 90,812 as of 2012. The town has an airport and is known for its beaches, and has a few limited tourist facilities, but tourism is incidental to the main economic activities of the town. The town of Muanda is 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) north-west of

98-429: The Congo River , 148 km (92 mi) from the mouth and 8 km (5.0 mi) below the last navigable point before the rapids that make the river impassable for a long stretch upriver. Matadi was near the site of the state of Vungu , which was first mentioned in 1535 and was said to be destroyed in 1624. Matadi itself was founded by Sir Henry Morton Stanley in 1879. It was strategically important because it

112-460: The Congo River allow seagoing vessels to reach Boma and the largest port, Matadi , despite their distance from the coast. The Köppen-Geiger climate classification system classifies Moanda‘s climate as tropical wet and dry ( Aw ), although it is only marginally wet enough to avoid being classed as a hot semi-arid climate ( BSh ). This Democratic Republic of the Congo location article

126-463: The Portuguese explorer in 1485 marking the limit of his travels up the Congo River. Yelala Rapids lies near the city. Matadi has a relatively dry tropical savanna climate ( Köppen Aw ) with a lengthy dry season from June to September due to the northerly extension of the cold, foggy Benguela Current . The mouth of the Congo forms one of Africa's largest harbours. In addition to Matadi, which

140-538: The city's architecture and urban design, which borrowed from the neighboring colonies in Angola and the Congo-Brazzaville . The word Matadi means stone in the local Kikongo language. The town is built on steep hills. A local saying is that to live in Matadi, you must know the verbs "to go up", "to go down", and "to sweat". Upstream is a series of caves known as the "rock of Diogo Cão ", after graffiti carved by

154-420: The main road linking Kinshasa to the coast. After passing through Matadi and over the bridge, it continues to Boma, Muanda and Banana. Although built as a mixed rail and road bridge, no rail line is now operating over the bridge. Matadi is the port railhead for the 366 km long Matadi-Kinshasa Railway , constructed to bypass the rapids on the river upstream. A monument to the builders of the railway stands on

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168-415: The small port of Banana in the mouth of the Congo, and 6.5 kilometres (4.0 mi) southeast of Point Kipundji. The Moanda Oil Terminal, consisting of various platforms, pipelines and a permanent tanker, lies 10 miles southwest of Point Kipundji. Some 100 km upstream from Muanda, on the north bank of the Congo River, lies the city of Boma , DR Congo's second-largest port. The great width and depth of

182-498: Was begun in 2022. La Cité africaine de Matadi is a newspaper published in French in Matadi. In Belgium, a small garden city in the Heverlee suburb of Leuven was named after Matadi in the 1920s. 05°49′00″S 13°29′00″E  /  5.81667°S 13.48333°E  / -5.81667; 13.48333 Muanda Moanda or Muanda is a town and territory lying on

196-551: Was the last navigable port going upstream on the Congo River ; it became the furthest inland port in the Congo Free State . The construction of the Matadi–Kinshasa Railway (built between 1890 and 1898) made it possible to transport goods from deeper within Congo's interior to the port of Matadi, stimulating the city to become an important trading center. Portuguese and French West-African commercial interests influenced

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