Livingstone Falls (Kinshasa)

Congo / Brazzaville / Kinshasa
 river rapid / white water, water, waterfall

Livingstone Falls (Chutes de Livingstone) named for the explorer David Livingstone, are a succession of rapids on the lower course of the Congo River in west equatorial Africa, downstream from Malebo Pool in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The falls consists of a series of rapids dropping 900 feet in 220 miles (270 meters in 350 kilometers). It ends in Matadi in Bas-Congo. The Congo River has the second largest flow rate in the world after the River Amazon, which has no falls or rapids (except near its sources). The lowest rapids of the Livingstone Falls therefore are the world's largest waterfall in terms of flow rate, provided one accepts rapids as being a waterfall.

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Coordinates:   4°19'20"S   15°13'11"E
This article was last modified 13 years ago