Congo

Consider the origins of the Congo River Lualaba and Cham-bezi. The length of the river from the first source - 4,000 320 kilometers, and the second - 4,000 700 kilometers. Congo takes place in the northern and southern hemisphere, and double-crosses the equator. Before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean, the river cuts through the highly elevated edge of the African platform. Major tributaries of the Congo - Lukuga, which gives the stock Lake Tanganyika, Ubangi, Kasai. Top techeniє Congo and its tributaries is replete with rapids and waterfalls. At the equator the river forms a seven waterfalls transitions, but the name of a researcher named Stanley waterfalls Stanley completes the upper segment within the Congo. In the middle reaches of the Congo calm its waters. River channel in places forms ozeropodobnye basin, which reach 20 kilometers in diameter. In this part of Cohn takes its largest tributaries. In the downstream, cutting crystal array of the Congo again forms several waterfalls, which are also united by the common name: Falls Livingstone. Out on the coastal plain, Congo reaches great depths - up to 70 meters! River at the mouth (where it flows into the ocean) breaks up their sleeves and ends with a wide and deep estuary (mouth of the funnel-shaped, having a considerable depth; estuary that was formed because the Congo River is subject to strong tides). In the Atlantic, the channel of the Congo continues as a submarine fissure at a distance of 150 kilometers from shore. A huge mass of water, handed down the river to the ocean to desalinate it for a few tens of kilometers. During the floods of the Congo in the middle stream overflows its banks and flooded hundreds of square kilometers of flat surface of the basin. All the rivers in the Congo Basin have huge reserves of water power. But she used so far with minimal recoil. And the navigation on these rivers is hampered because of the numerous rapids and waterfalls.