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    Boyoma Falls (Swahili: Maporomoko ya Maji ya Boyoma, French: chutes de Boyoma, Dutch: Boyomawatervallen), formerly known as Stanley Falls (French: Chutes...
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    referred to as Falls Station or "The Post Stanley Falls," "The Falls," or colloquially "Boyoma" (the indigenous name for Boyoma Falls), the settlement...
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    The only wider falls are extremely large rapid-like falls, such as the Boyoma Falls (Stanley Falls). With the flooding of the Guaíra Falls in 1982, Iguazu...
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    Lualaba River, and Lualaba is the name of the Congo River upstream of Boyoma Falls, extending for 1,800 km (1,100 mi). Measured along with the Lualaba,...
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    Kindu up to the Boyoma Falls at Ubundu, the stream is navigable again for more than 300 kilometres. The Boyoma Falls or Stanley Falls are made up of seven...
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  • Stanley Falls may refer to : Stanley Falls, Congo, former name for the Boyoma Falls, seven Congolese cataracts on the Lualaba River Stanley Falls District...
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  • by height List of waterfalls by type Orders of magnitude (power) "Inga Falls, Congo, Democratic Republic of the – World Waterfall Database". www.worldwaterfalldatabase...
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  • Kalandula Falls – 105 m (344 ft) high Kagera Falls Rusumo Falls Boali Falls Gauthiot Falls Boyoma Falls – formerly known as Stanley Falls; highest flow...
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    opposite the town of Ankoro. The Lualaba becomes the Congo River below the Boyoma Falls. Lake Mweru, at an elevation of about 1,000 metres (3,300 ft), is a floodplain...
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    series of rapid promotions, Rom commanded the station at Stanley Falls (now Boyoma Falls) and was eventually promoted District Commissioner of Matadi. He...
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    to keep his word, and in August Jameson visited him at Stanley Falls (today Boyoma Falls) on the Upper Congo without result. No news from Stanley reached...
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    the lower reaches of the Boyoma Falls. As a result, the seventh and last cataract on the Boyoma is named the Wagenia Falls. Because of low rock banks...
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    same name. It is on the Lualaba River, or Upper Congo, just above the Boyoma Falls. As the river is not navigable from here downstream to Kisangani, a portage...
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    Before 2012 the falls of Teotônio and of San Antônio existed here, they had higher flow rate and bigger level drop than more famous Boyoma Falls in Africa....
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    Morton Stanley, Tippu Tip became a governor of the "Stanley Falls District" (Boyoma Falls) in Leopold's Congo Free State, before being involved in the...
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    Falls (modern-day Boyoma Falls) and a smaller, nearby Congo Free State fort led by Walter Deane and Lieutenant Dubois. Tip's men at the Stanley Falls...
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  • Boyoma Falls Gouina Falls Victoria Falls Chitrakoot Falls Gokak Falls Kakolat Thoovanam Waterfalls Tirparappu Waterfalls Banangar Falls Malela Falls Temam...
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    Lake Mweru. The river flows generally west from Kisangani just below Boyoma Falls, then gradually bends southwest, passing by Mbandaka, joining with the...
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    On January 6, 1877, after 400 miles (640 km), they reached Boyoma Falls (called Stanley Falls for some time after), consisting of seven cataracts spanning...
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    George Albert Boulenger in 1899, based upon a holotype discovered at the Boyoma Falls, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The body of the fish is brown...
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    and Nyangwe. Later on they went northward and they reached Kirundu and Boyoma Falls around 1882–1883. These traders were in search of ivory and slaves, as...
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    the Ituri, Itimbri and Kasai Rivers as well as the Kinsuka Rapids and Boyoma Falls. Neolamprologus christyi is a species of cichlid endemic to Lake Tanganyika...
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  • and established a station that became the city of Kisangani below the Boyoma Falls, a 56 miles (90 km) series of cataracts. The river was navigable from...
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  • city) through Luvua River to Ankoro (requiring dams and a Boat lift in Boyoma Falls, like the Three Gorges dam ship lift), or the waterway into the Lake...
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  • the main right bank tributaries of the Congo River downstream from the Boyoma Falls in the Cuvette Centrale (Central Basin). This is a flat area of lowland...
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    Name Former name in French Former name in Dutch Former Namesake Boyoma Falls Stanley Falls Stanleywatervallen Named in honour of Henry Morton Stanley, explorer...
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    to catch the fish thrown downstream by rapids at the Boyoma Falls (aka: Stanley or Kisangani falls) on the Lualaba River, near Kisangani in the Democratic...
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  • the Ituri, Itimbri and Kasai Rivers as well as the Kinsuka Rapids and Boyoma Falls. This species grows to a length of 9.5 centimetres (3.7 in) SL. The catfish...
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  • Morton Stanley A flower chafer beetle first collected near Boyoma Falls (then known as Stanley Falls), in the present-day Democratic Republic of the Congo...
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    established trading posts of this company as far as the Stanley Falls (Boyoma Falls). As of 1 January 1894 the company had 83 factories and posts, including...
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