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{{Short description|River in Congo DR}}
[[File:Lomami River DRC.svg|right|thumb|Map of [[DR Congo]] showing the Lomami River in red]]
The '''Lomami River''' ({{langx|sw|Mto Lomami}}, {{langx|fr|Rivière Lomami}}, {{langx|nl|Lomami Rivier}}) is a major [[tributary]] of the [[Congo River]] in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. The river is approximately {{convert|1280|km|mi|abbr=on}} long.<ref name=bossche>{{cite book |last= Bossche |first= J.P. vanden |author2=G. M. Bernacsek  |title= Source Book for the Inland Fishery Resources of Africa, Volume 1 |year= 1990 |publisher= Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |isbn= 978-92-5-102983-1 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=WLZRxM9vfXoC&pg=PA333 |page= 333}}</ref> It flows north, west of and parallel to the upper Congo.

The Lomami rises in the south of the country, near [[Kamina]] and the Congo–[[Zambezi River|Zambezi]] [[Drainage divide|divide]].<ref name=bossche/> It flows north through [[Lubao, Democratic Republic of the Congo|Lubao]], {{ill|Tshofa|fr}}, [[Kombe, Democratic Republic of the Congo|Kombe]], [[Bolaiti]], [[Opala, Democratic Republic of the Congo|Opala]], and [[Irema]] before joining the Congo at [[Isangi]].

[[Henry Morton Stanley]] reached the confluence of the two rivers on 6 Jan. 1877, "the affluent Lumami, which [[David Livingstone|Livingstone]] calls 'Young's river,' entered the great stream, by a mouth 600 yards wide, between low banks densely covered with trees."<ref name=Stanley>Stanley, H.M., 1899, Through the Dark Continent, London: G. Newnes, Vol. One {{ISBN|0486256677}}, Vol. Two {{ISBN|0486256685}}</ref>{{rp|Vol.Two,176}}

In October 1889 M. Janssen, Governor-General of the Congo State, explored the Lomani river upstream from Isangi on the ''Ville de Bruxelles''. After steaming for 116 hours he was stopped by rapids at a latitude of 4°27'2" S.<ref>{{cite journal
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohscAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA260
 |journal=Scottish Geographical Magazine |volume=6
 |title=The Lomami
 |publisher=Royal Scottish Geographical Society|year=1890}}</ref>

The river has lent its name to a number of [[biological species]], including the monkey ''[[Cercopithecus lomamiensis]]'' and the flowering plant ''[[Pavetta lomamiensis]]''.

{{wide image|Lomami River at Katopa Camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo.JPG|1000px|alt=Lomami River at Katopa Camp, Democratic Republic of the Congo.}}

==References==
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==External links==
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[[Category:Tributaries of the Congo River]]
[[Category:Rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo]]


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