DR Congo Waterfall

Chutes Wagenia

A 60 m drop.

When to go

Fiston bamela · CC0

In numbers.

60m

Height

380m

Elevation

Is a fall of the Democratic Republic of Congo in the province of Tshopo

Chutes Wagenia is a waterfall in DR Congo. The water falls 60 m.

Getting there.

Kisanganinearest town · 3.2 km in a straight line
Bangoka International Airport (FKI)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 15 km in a straight line

Plan your visit

Stay, explore and get there

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How big is it?

How big it really is.

Height of the drop from Wikidata. Buildings and the person are drawn at the same scale.

Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

Chutes Wagenia seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

ViewpointsOther fallsCampsites

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Congo through the falls

The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.

The valley below the falls

What is around.

1viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
2campsitesAMICONGO
11hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 kmPalm Beach, Procure, Riviera and 8 more
9restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Towns nearby

Kisangani3.2 km in a straight line

Photos

Through visitors' eyes.

Aembe au Chutes Wagenia Kisangani — Ginembolisamarie · CC BY-SA 4.0

Henry Morton Stanley - Chutes Wagenia — OtikolenoiL · CC0

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Chutes Wagenia

DR Congo

60 mHeight
—Average flow
—Best months

Boyoma Falls

DR Congo

—Height
—Average flow
Apr–May, Oct–NovBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q131190863) · CC0
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.