Tshilongo River

Tshilongo River
Tshilongo River is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Tshilongo River
Location
CountryDemocratic Republic of the Congo
Physical characteristics
Source 
 • coordinates10°32′29″S 26°02′09″E / 10.54139°S 26.03583°E / -10.54139; 26.03583
MouthKando River
 • coordinates
10°48′40″S 26°02′52″E / 10.81111°S 26.04778°E / -10.81111; 26.04778
Basin features
River systemLualaba River

The Tshilongo River (French: Rivière Tshilongo) is a river in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Course

The watershed of the Tshilongo River, which flows from north to south, is west of the watershed of the Dipeta and Mofia rivers.[1] The Tshilongo River originates just south of the village of Tshilongo and flows south-east to Tenke.[2] Along this stretch the RP615 provincial highway and the Lubudi–Tenke railway run parallel to the river.[citation needed] The Tshilongo River then runs south from Tenke to join the Kando River. The Kando flows west to join the Lualaba River near Kolwezi.[3]

A new plant species, Streptocarpus malachiticola, was found along the Tshilongo in the rocks bordering the right bank near Kabwe village in 1980.[4]

History

The Compagnie de Chemin de fer du Katanga opened the 114.3 kilometres (71.0 mi) section of the Lubumbashi – Bukama line that ran from Kamatanda Junction to Tenke and the Tshilongo River on 15 July 1914. The 89.4 kilometres (55.6 mi) section from the Tshilongo River to Lubudi opened on 1 April 1918.[citation needed] The Benguela Railway ran 837 miles (1,347 km) through Portuguese West Africa (Angola) from Lobito Bay on the Atlantic to the border of Katanga province in the Belgian Congo. It opened to the border on 10 June 1929. The next step was construction of the 335 miles (539 km) section from the frontier to the Tshilongo at Tenke.[5] The Dilolo–Tenke line opened on 26 April 1931.

During Operation Grandslam, where United Nations peacekeeping forces attacked the secessionist State of Katanga, on 17 January 1963 forward elements of the 99th Brigade reached the Tshilongo River where they were ordered to halt. That afternoon Moïse Tshombe formally surrendered.[6]

Notes

  1. ^ Avenent 2014..., p. 2.
  2. ^ Avenent 2014..., p. 20.
  3. ^ Golder Associates 2007, p. 15.
  4. ^ Fischer & Darbyshire 2021, p. 265.
  5. ^ Editorial Notes 1929, p. 405.
  6. ^ Praval 2012, Six: Non-alignment and peace-keeping : The Congo.

Sources

  • Avenent 2014 de l'évaluations des impacts environnementaux er sociaux (PDF) (in French), Tenke Fungurume Mining, July 2014, retrieved 2021-09-12
  • "Editorial Notes", Journal of the Royal African Society, 28 (112), Oxford University Press on behalf of The Royal African Society: 405–412, July 1929, JSTOR 717303 – via JSTOR
  • Fischer, Eberhard; Darbyshire, Iain (24 June 2021), "Five new species of Streptocarpus (Gesneriaceae) from Katanga, D.R. Congo", Plant Ecology and Evolution, 154 (2), Royal Botanical Society of Belgium and the Botanic Garden Meise: 264–280, doi:10.5091/plecevo.2021.1824, JSTOR 27029816, S2CID 237856662, retrieved 2021-09-12 – via JSTOR
  • Golder Associates (March 2007), Environmental Impact Assessment Tenke Fungurume Project (PDF), vol. E, retrieved 2021-09-12
  • Praval, K. C. (2012), Indian Army After Independence, Lancer Publishers, ISBN 9781935501619