Countries

Brazil,

Region

South America

Peru,

Colombia

Tributaries
- left

Maran, Japur, Rio Negro

- right

Ucayali, Purus, Madeira, Xingu,

Tocantins

City

Source

Iquitos (Peru); Manaus (Brazil)

Santarm and Belm do Par (Brazil).

Andes Mountains

- location

Nevado Mismi, Arequipa, Peru

- elevation

5,170 m (16,962 ft)

- coordinates

15315S 714555W15.51806S
71.76528W

Mouth

Atlantic Ocean

- elevation

0 m (0 ft)

- coordinates

0100S 4900W0.166667S
49W [1]

Length
Basin

6,800 km (4,200 mi) approx.

7,050,000 km (2,720,000 sq mi)
approx.

Discharge for mouth

- average

209,000 m3/s (7,381,000 cu ft/s) approx.

WGS84 6 4 45 S, 12 27 0 E
-6.079167, 12.45
UTM 33M 217742 9327379
Zoom 6
Scale 1:100000
Region AO Type river
Title Congo River (Edit | Report
inaccuracies)

River
River

The Congo River near Mossaka

Countrie Angola, Burundi, Cameroon,
s
Central African Republic,

Democratic Republic of the

Congo, Gabon, Republic of the
Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania,
Zambia

Mouth Atlantic Ocean

Length 4,700 km (2,920 mi) [1]

Basin

4,014,500 km (1,550,007 sq mi)

[1]

Discharg
e
- average 41,000 m3/s (1,447,901 cu ft/s) [1]
- max

75,000 m3/s (2,648,600 cu ft/s) [1]

- min

23,000 m3/s (812,237 cu ft/s)