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Key facts
- Lake type
- Fluvial
- Primary inflows
- Congo River
- Primary outflows
- Congo River
- Surface elevation
- 270 m (890 ft)
- Islands
- Mbamu
- Settlements
- Brazzaville , Kinshasa
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
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- Commons category
- Pool Malebo
- inflows
- Congo
- outflows
- Congo
- vertical depth
- 25
- drainage basin
- Congo Basin
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Encyclopedic overview
The Pool Malebo (formerly Stanley Pool), also known historically as Mpumbu, Lake Nkunda, Lake Nkuna, Lake Ntamo, or Lake Ngobila, is a broad, lake-like widening of the lower Congo River in Central Africa that forms a natural basin where the river expands before descending downstream into the Livingstone Falls. The pool serves as an international boundary between the Republic of the Congo to the north and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the south, with the national capitals Brazzaville and Kinshasa situated directly opposite one another on its northern and southern shores.
Spanning roughly 500 square kilometers and measuring about 35 kilometers long by 23 kilometers wide, Pool Malebo is characterized by shallow waters, typically ranging from 3 to 10 meters in depth, though seasonal floods can significantly alter water levels.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pool Malebo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.