Ubundu
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Ubundu, formerly known as Ponthierville or Ponthierstad, is a town located in the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the administrative center of the territory of the same name. It is on the Lualaba River, or Upper Congo, just above the Boyoma Falls.
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- Locality
- Ubundu
- Region
- Tshopo
- Country
- République démocratique du Congo
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
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- Ubundu
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- Commune
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- Ubundu is a port on the Congo River, about a 100 km up a muddy road from Kisangani.
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- Democratic Republic of the Congo
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- Country
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- Province
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- Tshopo
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- Territory
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Ubundu
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- Metric
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- auto
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- Climate
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- Tropical raninforest (Af)
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- National language
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- Swahili
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- CAT
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- +2
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Ubundu, formerly known as Ponthierville or Ponthierstad, is a town located in the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the administrative center of the territory of the same name. It is on the Lualaba River, or Upper Congo, just above the Boyoma Falls.
==History== As the river is not navigable from here downstream to Kisangani, a portage railway was built to link the settlement to Kisangani. It was built and operated during the colonial era by the Compagnie du chemin de fer du Congo supérieur aux Grands Lacs africains of CFL (1902-1960) whose rail and river steamer service connected Kisangani with Katanga. Upstream from Ubundu the river is navigable as far as Kasongo.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ubundu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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