Yellala Falls
The Yellala Falls are a series of waterfalls and rapids on the Congo River just upstream from Matadi in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The falls are the lowest of a long series of rapids that render the river unnavigable, forcing colonial explorers to travel by foot as far as the Stanley Pool 350 kilometres upstream.
Wikimedia, Public domain.- Waterfall
- …lies at an elevation of around 20 metres (80 feet)
- Description: waterfall in the Congo river, DRC
- Also known as“Chutes Yelala”“Ielala Falls”“Rapides de Yalala”
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
-5.72575° or 5° 43′ 33″ south
Longitude
13.54551° or 13° 32′ 44″ east
Open location code
6F6M7GFW+M6
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Vietnamese—“Yellala Falls” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Cascades de Ielala”
- Cebuano: “Chute Yelala”
- French: “chutes de Yellala”
- French: “Rapides de Yellala”
- Galician: “Yellala Rapids”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Chutes Yelala”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ielala Falls”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Yellala Falls”
- Hausa: “Yellala Falls”
- Italian: “Cascate di Yellala”
- Mazanderani: “ئوشار یلالا”
- Mazanderani: “یلالا ئوشار”
- Persian: “ابشار یلالا”
- Somali: “Biyo dhacyada Yellala”
- Spanish: “Cataratas de Yellala”
- Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Yellala”
- Swahili: “Rápidos de Yellala”
- Swedish: “Chute Yelala”
- Swedish: “Rapides de Yelala”
- Tajik: “Йеллала”
- Tajik: “Обшори Йеллала”
- Tajik: “Шаршараи Йеллала”
- Urdu: “یلالا آبشار”
- Vietnamese: “thác Yellala”
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