Yambuya

Yambuya
Yambuya
	Yambuya
	Coordinates: 1°15′49″N24°33′10″E / 1.263669°N 24.552813°E Coordinates: 1°15′49″N24°33′10″E / 1.263669°N 24.552813°E
Country	Democratic Republic of the Congo
District	Tshopo
Territory	Banalia

Last updated February 24, 2019

Yambuya is a community in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the Aruwimi River, roughly due north of Yangambi. The river is navigable as far as Yambuya, but is blocked by cataracts further upstream.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also known as DR Congo, the DRC, DROC, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa. It is sometimes anachronistically referred to by its former name of Zaire, which was its official name between 1971 and 1997. It is, by area, the largest country in Sub-Saharan Africa, the second-largest in all of Africa, and the 11th-largest in the world. With a population of over 78 million, the Democratic Republic of the Congo is the most populated officially Francophone country, the fourth-most-populated country in Africa, and the 16th-most-populated country in the world.

The Aruwimi River is a tributary of the Congo River, located to the north and east of the Congo.

Yangambi is a city in the Isangi Territory of Tshopo District, Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Yambuya was made a base for the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1886 to 1889, when an expedition led by Henry Morton Stanley went cross-country to the relief of Emin Pasha, General Charles Gordon's besieged governor of Equatoria, threatened by Mahdist forces.^[1]

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Relief expedition troops landing at Yambuya
Rapids of Yambuya. - Aruwimi (1889)

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References

↑ Ronald M. Smith (1890). Stanley in tropical Africa: his travels, heroism and discoveries and gallant relief of Emin Pasha ; including the narrative of the Livingstone search expedition, of the journey through equatorial Africa, and that of the founding of the Congo Free state. Ward, Lock and Co. p. 75.

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[1] Ronald M. Smith (1890). Stanley in tropical Africa: his travels, heroism and discoveries and gallant relief of Emin Pasha ; including the narrative of the Livingstone search expedition, of the journey through equatorial Africa, and that of the founding of the Congo Free state. Ward, Lock and Co. p. 75.