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The Congo Basin is a globally important climatic region with annual rainfall of between 1500 and 2000 mm. It is one of three hotspots of deep convection (thunderstorms) in the tropics, the other two being over the Maritime continent and the Amazon.
Description: basin of the Congo River in west equatorial Africa; Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa; View on OpenStreetMap
1 wrz 2024 · The Congo basin is the second largest rainforest in the world, The Congo basin covers 1,700,000 square kilometres- roughly 18% of all global rainforests and covers 6 African countries.
The Congo basin is a beautiful rainforest stretching over 6 countries including Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Gabon (WWF, 2024). It is spread over 500 million acres making it the second largest rainforest in the world (Rhett-A.Butler, 2020).
This maps shows great bodies of water - rivers and lakes - of the six countries of the Congo Basin.
3 lis 2024 · Congo basin, basin of the Congo River, lying astride the Equator in west-central Africa. It is the world’s second largest river basin (next to that of the Amazon), comprising an area of more than 1.3 million square miles (3.4 million square km).
Please see our Congo Basin Forest Atlases page for the latest versions of our Congo Basin Atlases, along with links to online interactive maps, desktop mapping applications, GIS data, posters, and contact information.
