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• MR LOVSON

  5

  Reviewed: 2024-07-01

  - Congo River: It is the deepest and longest river in Africa at about 230 meters below the surface of the earth. It was formerly known as the River Zaire, and its length is about 4,700 km, making it the ninth largest river in the world. It is also one of the rivers flowing from the rainforests of the Congo, which is considered the second largest rainforest after Amazon. Will the dream of the Nile River connection project come true? The river is known to locals as the Zaire River. The length of the Congo River is about 4,370 km, or approximately two-thirds of the length of the Nile River. As for its annual water revenues, they amount to about 1,293 billion cubic metres, or approximately 14 times the revenues of the Nile River, according to UNESCO estimates, making it the second greatest river in the world after the mighty Amazon River, which is considered the greatest freshwater empire in the world with its annual revenues amounting to more than 5,600 billion cubic metres. Annually, that is, about 60 times the annual water revenue of the Nile River. The Democratic Republic of the Congo receives the bulk of the Congo River's revenues, or about 900 billion cubic metres, while the Republic of the Congo and Angola receive the rest of the river's revenues.[2] The Democratic Republic of the Congo consumes only about 12.8 billion cubic meters of fresh water, 1.4% of its total water revenues. This means that there are approximately 887.2 billion cubic meters flowing from the Democratic Republic of the Congo alone to the Atlantic Ocean without being used. The project provides Egypt with 95 billion cubic meters of water annually, providing agriculture with 80 million acres, which increases gradually after 10 years to 112 billion cubic meters, enabling Egypt to cultivate half the area of ​​the Western Desert. The project provides Egypt, Sudan, and the Congo with electrical energy sufficient for more than two-thirds of the African continent, with an amount of 18,000 megawatts, i.e. Ten times more than the High Dam generates. That is, its value if exported to African countries is about $21 billion. The project provides the three countries (Egypt - Sudan - Congo) with 320 million acres suitable for agriculture. The idea actually appeared for the first time in 1980 when Egyptian President Anwar Sadat ordered Dr. Ibrahim Mostafa Kamel and Dr. Ibrahim Hamida to conduct a field tour in the Congo to provide an overview of the geographical nature of the river. Some claim that after presenting the project to Sadat, the Egyptian government sent it to Arthur D. Little, a global company specializing in providing American strategic consulting, to create the expected concept and the expected cost. However, there is no evidence at all of this step, on the part of the Egyptian government or on the part of the American company Implementation Abdel-Al Hassan, Vice President of the Geological Survey and Mineral Resources Authority, revealed that the Authority’s experts succeeded in developing 3 scientific and geological scenarios that would allow increasing the flow of the Nile River by exploiting a portion of the Congo River’s losses, which amount to 1,000 billion cubic meters annually, dumped into the Atlantic Ocean, by establishing a carrier canal. With a length of 600 kilometers to transport water to the Nile River basin through South Sudan to its north and from there to Lake Nasser.[2] He explained in a press conference held to announce the project on June 9, 2011, that the idea of ​​the project is based on the connection between the basins of the Nile River and the Congo River. Therefore, all available data was used to study the most appropriate path for delivering water from the Congo River to the Nile River across the water dividing line all the way to southern Juba, South Sudan. ». He pointed out that three proposed scenarios were studied to determine the path of the water. The length of the first is 424 kilometers and the water level difference will be 1,500 metres, which is impossible to implement. The second scenario is at a distan

• Pramod Kumar

  1

  Reviewed: 2024-01-18

  Congo river as a located an good place.🇮🇳🚩 Congo River, river in west-central Africa. With a length of 2,900 miles (4,700 km), it is the continent's second longest river, after the Nile.

• Jesùs Manuel Rodríguez

  5

  Reviewed: 2024-01-15

  Great place to fish for some big fish. If you love to fish as much as me you will enjoy the bountiful amount of fish this river has to offer.

• River Swimmer

  5

  Reviewed: 2023-12-29

  I love the congo river a lot. The only concern I have is that there are many animals. I tried swimming in the river, but the current was too strong, so i had to stop swimming. The sunset is beautiful though. I would not reccomend for kids though.

• RapKeed Musik

  5

  Reviewed: 2021-07-05

  Can't share the experience with words on this one. You have to see it for yourself