Bikoro Territory is an administrative area in Équateur District of Équateur province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The headquarters is the town of Bikoro. The territory lies to the south of the provincial capital of Mbandaka. It is bordered on the west by the Congo River, and contains Lake Ntomba.[2]
The lake covers about 765 square kilometres (295 sq mi) depending on the season, connected via the Irebu channel with the Congo river. Water may flow into or out of the lake through this channel depending on the floods. Lake Tumba has 114 species of fish and supports an important fisheries.[3]
The lake lies at the center of the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe landscape, the largest Ramsar Convention wetland in the world, a vast area of forest and permanent or seasonal lakes and marshlands that has great environmental and economic value.[4]
Bikoro Territory is one of the remaining places where bonobos still survive, a close relative of humans.
It is also home to the endangered red colobus monkey and the red-tailed monkey. Other large animals include the hippopotamus, crocodile and elephant.
The marsh forests are suffering from uncontrolled timber extraction and slash-and-burn agriculture.
The main cash crops are coffee, cacao and rubber.[5]
^ ab"Cellule d'Analyses des Indicateurs de Développement". caid.cd (in French). Archived from the original on 2021-04-24. Retrieved 2023-03-25.
^Blaes, X. (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). PNUD-SIG. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-04-01. Retrieved 2011-12-09.
^"INFORMATION ON FISHERIES MANAGEMENT IN THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO". Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. January 2001. Archived from the original on 2008-03-14. Retrieved 2012-01-28.
^Patrice Yamba T. Kantu (December 2009). "congo basin – drc – case study on the ngiri – tumba – maindombe wetland landscape" (PDF). Institute for Environmental Security. pp. 12–14. Retrieved 2012-01-29.
^Cite error: The named reference Kiyulu was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
BikoroTerritory is an administrative area in Équateur District of Équateur province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The headquarters is the town...
center of BikoroTerritory. In 2012, the estimated population was 7,426. Bikoro was the episcopal see of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Bikoro (which started...
of Bikoro was a Latin Church diocese in (initially Belgian) Congo (Zaire) from 1931 to 1975, named after its then headquarters/ episcopal see Bikoro, run...
northwestern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the BikoroTerritory of the Province of Équateur. The lake covers about 765 square kilometres...
Développement (CAID). Archived from the original on 30 May 2018. Territoire de Bikoro: Carte administrative (Map). Cellule d'Analyses des Indicateurs de Développement...
having gained territory from the same Apostolic Vicariate of Nouvelle-Anvers); it became the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Mbandaka-Bikoro. Territorial...
The territories of the Democratic Republic of the Congo are administrative divisions of provinces. Territories are further divided into sectors, chiefdoms...
Apostolic Vicariate of Léopoldville. It lost territory several times more: to establish the Mission sui juris of Bikoro on 3 January 1931, the Apostolic Vicariate...
becoming a suffragan of the Metropolitan Archbishop of Mbandaka-Bikoro Lost territory on 25 November 1964 to establish Roman Catholic Diocese of Budjala...
is a suffragan Latin diocese in the ecclesiastical province of Mbandaka-Bikoro in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its cathedral episcopal see is...
(27 January 2024) Suspension to be served outside the tournament Federico Bikoro in Group A vs Nigeria (matchday 1; 14 January 2024) in Round of 16 vs Guinea...
It is located in western Équateur province, in the Bomongo, Bikoro and Makanza territories, and covers a total area of 1,000 square kilometres (390 sq mi)...
suffragan diocese in the ecclesiastical province of the Metropolitan Mbandaka-Bikoro in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its cathedral episcopal see is...
India, killing 21 people. October 9 – A lightning strike on a school in Bikoro, Democratic Republic of the Congo, killed 11 people, with 85 injured. October...
disputed territories, a controversy aggravated by the suspicion that there is oil there. They accused Gabon of illegally occupying Equatoguinean territory. And...
Congo were divided into 26 districts. Those in turn were divided into territories or communes. The 2006 constitution planned to convert many of the districts...
Belgian Congo (or Congo Belge; (then Belgian) Congo) Mission sui iuris of Bikoro ((then Belgian) Congo) Mission sui iuris of Cunene (Angola) Mission sui...
1962 Cuvette Centrale Province comprised the territories of Basankusu, Bolomba, Coq-Kalamba, Ingende and Bikoro in Équateur District; Boende, Befale, Bokungo...
of the earliest inhabitants was found in 1982 and 1983 by J. Preuss at Bikoro in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Preuss found a number of stone...
Lake Kivu Fimi River to Inongo on Lake Mai-Ndombe Irebu on the Congo to Bikoro on Lake Tumba Kasenga to Pweto on the Luapula-Mweru system Kisenye to Mahadi-Port...
Global Information
Democratic Republic of the Congo