Upoto
Upoto | |
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 Upoto Mission Building | |
  Upoto | |
| Coordinates: 2°08′27″N 21°29′40″E / 2.14082°N 21.49432°E | |
| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Province | Mongala |
| Elevation | 399 m (1,309 ft) |
Upoto was a village on the right bank of the Congo River, now a district of Lisala in the Mongala province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]
History
[edit]Captain Hanssens of the International Association of the Congo founded the Upoto station, on the right bank of the Congo above the confluence of the Mongala River, in June 1884.[2] A military post was founded there in 1888–1889 by a Belgian expedition led by Francis Dhanis.[3]
Notes
[edit]- ^ Upoto Geonames.
- ^ Bartholomew 1885, p. 47.
- ^ Coosemans 1946.
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Sources
[edit]- Bartholomew, John George (1885), "International Congo Association : Lists of its 45 Stations", Scottish Geographical Magazine, 1 (1–3), The Scottish Geographical Society: 47–49, doi:10.1080/14702548508553946, retrieved 2020-08-31
- Coosemans, M. (20 May 1946), "MILZ (Jules-Alexandre)", Biographie Belge d'Outre-Mer (in French), vol. I, Académie Royale des Sciences d'Outre-Mer, pp. 697–701, retrieved 2020-08-30
- "Upoto", Geonames.org, retrieved 2020-08-31