Upoto

Upoto
Upoto Mission Building
Upoto Mission Building
Upoto is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Upoto
Upoto
Coordinates: 2°08′27″N 21°29′40″E / 2.14082°N 21.49432°E / 2.14082; 21.49432
CountryDemocratic Republic of the Congo
ProvinceMongala
Elevation
399 m (1,309 ft)

Upoto was a village on the right bank of the Congo River, now a district of Lisala in the Mongala province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

History

Captain Hanssens of the International Association of the Congo founded the Upoto station, on the right bank of the Congo above the confluence of the Mongala River, in June 1884.[2] A military post was founded there in 1888–1889 by a Belgian expedition led by Francis Dhanis.[3]

Notes

  1. ^ Upoto Geonames.
  2. ^ Bartholomew 1885, p. 47.
  3. ^ Coosemans 1946.
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Sources

  • Bartholomew, John George (1885), "International Congo Association : Lists of its 45 Stations", Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1 (1–3), The Scottish Geographical Society: 47–49, doi:10.1080/14702548508553946, retrieved 2020-08-31
  • Coosemans, M. (20 May 1946), "MILZ (Jules-Alexandre)", Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer (in French), vol. I, Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, pp. 697–701, retrieved 2020-08-30
  • "Upoto", Geonames.org, retrieved 2020-08-31