Lecture 14: The Congo River

•Evolution, Geomorphology and Hydrology •Future issues

Length: 4370 km

Peak Discharge: 80,830m3s-1

Mean Annual Water

Discharge: 41,200 m3s-1

Drainage Basin Area: 3.82 *

106 km2

Current Average annual

suspended sediment

discharge: 43* 106 t

Runge, 2007

Runge, 2007

Runge, 2007

NASA mrsid

NASA mrsid

Runge, 2007

NASA mrsid

Runge, 2007

Runge, 2007

internationalrivers.org

internationalrivers.org

see link on course website

Runge, Chapter 14 in

Large Rivers

• Wednesday March 9th: Congo video in class

session

• Monday March 14th: project work – one page

group summary due in by March 18th

• Wednesday March 16th: mid term exam in normal

class session