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Is this river the deepest in all of Africa? If not, which river is it?
Answer: According to a recent expedition that the National Geographic filmed, the Congo is the deepest river in the world. It was measured at 755 feet deep in one area and over 700 feet deep along much of the central section. I would think that this data would serve to greatly revise the streamflow calculations that have been used previously. I'm not a hydrologist, but I have to believe after watching the Nat Geo special, that it may be in contention for the greatest volume in the world, based on this new data.
Why is the length of the river listed on the right hand side in the table different from that in the article?
How can the Congo river pass through the fifth largest rain forest in the world, if only the Amazon rain forest is larger? Doesn't that make it the second largest?
The table of contents/first heading ("Congo River in Africa" -- which also by the way I corrected from "RIver" to "River") were inside the Infobox, in the middle of the caption/photo credit. I moved it to just after the infobox. -- Jefs 16:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Congo Basin is a region but Congo River is a river, therefore should be in separate articles —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Guitarhamster ( talk • contribs) 15:50, 12 February 2007 (UTC).
True! JosiahHenderson ( talk) 22:05, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
This article states that the flow of the Congo is constant throughout the year due to the fact that the drainage basin lies on both sides of the Equator. However according to [this] the average discharge at Inga on the lower Congo has a minimum of 30 000 m3/s in July-August and a maximum of almost 60 000 m3/s in November-December. Now I know that this is constant compared to many rivers which have a peak discharge of many times the minimum, but I still think the 'constant' should be qualified as this is a maximum discharge of almost twice the minimum. Booshank 19:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC) hello my name is some one you dont want to know haha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.156.194 ( talk) 03:21, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
How about adding a section on flora and fauna of the river? The Zambezi River article has a section on the wildlife of its river. Dogru144 ( talk) 07:05, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
The title of this article is "Congo River", but the article consistently refers to the "River Congo" (the change was made by 81.152.43.194 in this edit). Both of the references in this article refer to the "Congo River", not the "River Congo". It seems that unless there is some good reason (and associated references) for referring to this river as the "River Congo", we should go back to "Congo River". — Bkell ( talk) 19:04, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
The French (and Dutch) language wikipedia page offers information not shown on the English page. The French language page follows the more or less stand model used for French watercourses, might it be usefully adopted here? The economic importance section is extremely light. The major towns on the river can be listed. There are at least two seaports on the Congo: Boma and Matadi. No information about the fisheries in the river. No information about water quality. The Congo river forms the border between Congo - Brazzaville and the People's Republic. So plenty to do Everybody got to be somewhere! ( talk) 15:21, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Wholesale copyright violations of other people's work and writing by 50.68.6.12, who is user Sfsorrow2, removed from this talk page. 131.231.60.203 ( talk) 10:06, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm wondering about the statement that the Congo R. started 1.5 -- 2 million years ago. I wonder:
It seems a surprisingly recent date. What is the evidence for it? Africa had much more rainfall for most of the Miocene, so would not the river be even more prominent then? Or are we really talking about a shift in the position of the river's mouth? I mean, the Congo is a geological basin, right? In the middle of a rainforest... Don't tell me it wasn't full of water in the Miocene!! Macdonald-ross ( talk) 07:09, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I googled and found this. Clearly, there were earlier rivers, and presumably the lower Congo has a much longer history, but the connection to the interior Congo basin apparently happened more recently. -- dab (𒁳) 15:01, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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Is this river the deepest in all of Africa? If not, which river is it?
Answer: According to a recent expedition that the National Geographic filmed, the Congo is the deepest river in the world. It was measured at 755 feet deep in one area and over 700 feet deep along much of the central section. I would think that this data would serve to greatly revise the streamflow calculations that have been used previously. I'm not a hydrologist, but I have to believe after watching the Nat Geo special, that it may be in contention for the greatest volume in the world, based on this new data.
Why is the length of the river listed on the right hand side in the table different from that in the article?
How can the Congo river pass through the fifth largest rain forest in the world, if only the Amazon rain forest is larger? Doesn't that make it the second largest?
The table of contents/first heading ("Congo River in Africa" -- which also by the way I corrected from "RIver" to "River") were inside the Infobox, in the middle of the caption/photo credit. I moved it to just after the infobox. -- Jefs 16:17, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
Congo Basin is a region but Congo River is a river, therefore should be in separate articles —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Guitarhamster ( talk • contribs) 15:50, 12 February 2007 (UTC).
True! JosiahHenderson ( talk) 22:05, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
This article states that the flow of the Congo is constant throughout the year due to the fact that the drainage basin lies on both sides of the Equator. However according to [this] the average discharge at Inga on the lower Congo has a minimum of 30 000 m3/s in July-August and a maximum of almost 60 000 m3/s in November-December. Now I know that this is constant compared to many rivers which have a peak discharge of many times the minimum, but I still think the 'constant' should be qualified as this is a maximum discharge of almost twice the minimum. Booshank 19:13, 5 July 2007 (UTC) hello my name is some one you dont want to know haha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.138.156.194 ( talk) 03:21, August 26, 2007 (UTC)
How about adding a section on flora and fauna of the river? The Zambezi River article has a section on the wildlife of its river. Dogru144 ( talk) 07:05, 30 January 2008 (UTC)
The title of this article is "Congo River", but the article consistently refers to the "River Congo" (the change was made by 81.152.43.194 in this edit). Both of the references in this article refer to the "Congo River", not the "River Congo". It seems that unless there is some good reason (and associated references) for referring to this river as the "River Congo", we should go back to "Congo River". — Bkell ( talk) 19:04, 14 September 2008 (UTC)
The French (and Dutch) language wikipedia page offers information not shown on the English page. The French language page follows the more or less stand model used for French watercourses, might it be usefully adopted here? The economic importance section is extremely light. The major towns on the river can be listed. There are at least two seaports on the Congo: Boma and Matadi. No information about the fisheries in the river. No information about water quality. The Congo river forms the border between Congo - Brazzaville and the People's Republic. So plenty to do Everybody got to be somewhere! ( talk) 15:21, 21 October 2009 (UTC)
Wholesale copyright violations of other people's work and writing by 50.68.6.12, who is user Sfsorrow2, removed from this talk page. 131.231.60.203 ( talk) 10:06, 13 June 2012 (UTC)
I'm wondering about the statement that the Congo R. started 1.5 -- 2 million years ago. I wonder:
It seems a surprisingly recent date. What is the evidence for it? Africa had much more rainfall for most of the Miocene, so would not the river be even more prominent then? Or are we really talking about a shift in the position of the river's mouth? I mean, the Congo is a geological basin, right? In the middle of a rainforest... Don't tell me it wasn't full of water in the Miocene!! Macdonald-ross ( talk) 07:09, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
I googled and found this. Clearly, there were earlier rivers, and presumably the lower Congo has a much longer history, but the connection to the interior Congo basin apparently happened more recently. -- dab (𒁳) 15:01, 3 May 2015 (UTC)
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