Bomu River

Bomu River
River, central Africa.

Flowing west, it forms the boundary between northern Congo and southern Central African Republic (where it is called the Mbomou). It flows in a wide 500-mi (800-km) curve through savannas to join the Uele River and form the Ubangi.

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also called  Mbomou,  

      in the Central African Republic, headstream of the Ubangi River. The Bomu River rises 30 miles (50 km) northwest of Doruma, Congo (Kinshasa), and flows 450 miles (725 km) west, forming, together with the Ubangi, the frontier between Congo and the Central African Republic. Its course takes it in a wide curve through savannas, past Bangassou, to join the Uele River at Yakoma, where it forms the Ubangi River. Its lower course contains rapids. The Bomu was discovered from the north in 1877 by a Greek, P. Potagos. Wilhelm Junker, a German explorer from Moscow, navigated its upper course, and in 1910–11 a French expedition made a complete hydrographic survey of the river.

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