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Boyoma Falls

Boyoma Falls, formerly known as Stanley Falls, is a series of seven cataracts, each no more than 5 m high, extending over more than 100 km along a curve of the Lualaba River between the river port towns of and in the Orientale Province of the .
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  • Type: Waterfall
  • Description: series of waterfalls on the Congo River in Orientale Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: “Chutes Wagenya”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kisangani.

Photo: Kareranathan, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is the third largest city in the and is the capital and largest city of the vast Orientale Province in the .

Boyoma Falls

Latitude
0.49272° or 0° 29′ 34″ north
Longitude
25.20721° or 25° 12′ 26″ east
Elevation
385 metres (1,263 feet)
Open location code
6GG7F6V4+3V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 60489375
Open­Street­Map feature
waterway=­waterfall
Geo­Names ID
205424
Wiki­data ID
Q38417
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Boyoma Falls” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شلالات بويوما”
  • Basque: “Boyoma ur-jauziak”
  • Belarusian: “Баёма”
  • Belarusian: “Вадаспады Баёма”
  • Bulgarian: “Бойома”
  • Catalan: “cascades Boyoma”
  • Catalan: “Cascades Boyoma”
  • Catalan: “Cascades Stanley”
  • Catalan: “Cascades Wagenia”
  • Cebuano: “Stanley Falls”
  • Chinese: “博約馬瀑布”
  • Chinese: “史丹利瀑布”
  • Chinese: “斯坦利瀑布”
  • Czech: “Boyomské vodopády”
  • Czech: “Stanleyovy vodopády”
  • Danish: “Boyoma-vandfaldene”
  • Dutch: “Boyoma Falls”
  • Dutch: “Boyoma-watervallen”
  • Dutch: “Boyoma”
  • Dutch: “Boyomawatervallen”
  • Dutch: “Chutes Tshungu”
  • Dutch: “Stanley-watervallen”
  • Dutch: “Stanleywatervallen”
  • Esperanto: “Bojomaj Akvofaloj”
  • French: “chutes Boyoma”
  • French: “Chutes Boyoma”
  • French: “Chutes Ngaliema”
  • French: “Stanley Falls”
  • French: “Stanleyfalls”
  • Georgian: “ბოიომის ჩანჩქერი”
  • German: “Boyoma Falls”
  • German: “Boyomafälle”
  • German: “Stanley Falls”
  • German: “Stanleyfälle”
  • Hebrew: “מפלי סטנלי”
  • Hungarian: “Boyoma-vízesés”
  • Italian: “cascate Boyoma”
  • Italian: “Cascate Boyoma”
  • Italian: “cascate di Stanley”
  • Italian: “cascate Stanley”
  • Japanese: “スタンリー滝”
  • Japanese: “ボヨマ・フォールズ”
  • Japanese: “ボヨマ滝”
  • Latvian: “Bojomas ūdenskritumi”
  • Lingala: “Bweta ya Boyoma”
  • Lithuanian: “Bojoma”
  • Lithuanian: “Bojomos kriokliai”
  • Lithuanian: “Bojomos krioklys”
  • Lithuanian: “Stenlio krioklys”
  • Mazanderani: “ئوشار بویوما”
  • Mazanderani: “بویوما ئوشار”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოიამაშ წუარგელაფუ”
  • Mingrelian: “ბოიამაშ წყარგელაფუ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Boyomafallene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kisanganifallene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stanley Falls”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Stanleyfallene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wageniafallene”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Wagenyafallene”
  • Norwegian: “Boyomafallene”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Stanley Falls”
  • Persian: “آبشار بویوما”
  • Persian: “ابشار بویوما”
  • Polish: “Boyoma Chutes”
  • Polish: “Boyoma Tshunga”
  • Polish: “Wodospady Stanleya”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas de Boioma”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas de Boyoma”
  • Portuguese: “Cataratas de Stanley”
  • Portuguese: “Quedas de Boioma”
  • Romanian: “Boyoma Falls”
  • Romanian: “Cascada Boyoma”
  • Russian: “Бойома”
  • Russian: “Стэнли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Slapovi Boyoma”
  • Slovak: “Stanleyho vodopády”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas Boyoma”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas de Stanley”
  • Spanish: “Cataratas Stanley”
  • Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Boyoma”
  • Swedish: “Boyomafallen”
  • Swedish: “Chutes Ngaliema”
  • Swedish: “Stanley Falls”
  • Swedish: “Stanleyfallen”
  • Tajik: “Бойома”
  • Tajik: “Обшори Бойома”
  • Tajik: “Шаршараи Бойома”
  • Ukrainian: “Стенлі”
  • Urdu: “بویوما آبشار”
  • Uzbek: “Boyoma”
  • Welsh: “Rhayadr Boyoma”
  • Western Panjabi: “بویوما آبشار”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boyoma Falls”. Photo: AdMeskens, CC BY-SA 3.0.