Ruki
Ruki is a mapped river in the YearMaps hydrographic index. River courses organise settlement, agriculture and frontier-making more durably than any political boundary, and this reach is indexed against the dams, lakes and cities within its catchment.
- Feature Class
- River
- Coordinates
- -0.07°, 18.58°
About Ruki
The Ruki (Swahili: Mto Ruki) is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a left tributary of the Congo River. It may be seen as the lower reach of the Busira River, which in turn may be seen as the lower reach of the Tshuapa River.
Encyclopedic summary adapted from Wikipedia: Ruki River (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Ruki in Depth
Location
The Ruki is a major river in the Cuvette Centrale of the middle Congo River basin.
The drainage basin is almost entirely pristine lowland forest and swamp forest.
The main rivers are the Ruki-Busira, Momboyo-Luilaka, Tshuapa, Lomela and Salonga.
The most important town in the river basin is Boende on the Tshuapa, 29 kilometres (18 mi) upstream from where it joins the Lomela to form the Busira.
The Ruki River forms above Ingende where the Momboyo River joins the Busira River from the left and flows in a west-northwest direction.
It enters the Congo from the east, flowing past the north of the town of Mbandaka.
The Ruki and its main tributary the Busira can be navigated year round, since the depth is always more than 1 metre (3 ft 3 in) and reaches 2 metres (6 ft 7 in) in the flood period.
Sections adapted from Wikipedia: Ruki River (CC BY-SA 4.0).
Major River Dossiers
Hand-written studies of the great river systems of history.
Connected Reaches
Nearby watercourses in the same drainage network.
Water Bodies in the Catchment
Settlements Along the Reach
Hydraulic Infrastructure Nearby
Surrounding Terrain
Ruki: Quick Answers
- Where is Ruki?
- Ruki is located in DR Congo, at 0.0652° S, 18.5812° E.
- Are there dams on the Ruki?
- No dam on the Ruki is recorded in the YearMaps dam index, which covers major structures only.