Originating in northeastern Zambia, the river forms a massive arc before flowing into the Atlantic Ocean at Banana in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Congo’s drainage basin is also ...

Public boats, with ample sleeping quarters, plied the Congo until the government of the DRC let them fall into disrepair. Now river traffic consists largely of barges (top) and pirogues (center).

An example of endorheic drainage – when land-locked water systems don’t drain into ... and Congo begin at a mountainous source (or sources), as streams that eventually form a river, the ...