Bouenza (can also be written as ''Buenza'') is a department of the

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in the southern part of the country. It borders the departments of Lékoumou,

Niari Niari, also known as "Radhi", is a caste in Odisha know for their traditional work "Chudakuta" (making flattened rice) and "Muudikuta" (making puffed rice). They're subcaste of Kshatriya.They are belong to general caste. History In history a ...

, and Pool, and internationally, the

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...

. The regional capital is

Madingou Madingou is a town located in southern Republic of the Congo. It is the capital city of the Madingou District and the Bouenza Region Bouenza (can also be written as ''Buenza'') is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southern pa ...

. Towns and cities include Loudima, Mouyondzi,

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and Nkayi.

Administrative divisions

Bouenza Department is divided into one commune and ten districts:

Districts

Madingou District Madingou is a district in the Bouenza Region of southern Republic of the Congo. The capital lies at Madingou Madingou is a town located in southern Republic of the Congo. It is the capital city of the Madingou District and the Bouenza Region ...

Mouyondzi District Mouyondzi is a district in the Bouenza Region Bouenza (can also be written as ''Buenza'') is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southern part of the country. It borders the departments of Lékoumou, Niari, and Pool, and internat ...

# Boko-Songho District #

Mfouati District Mfouati is a district in the Bouenza Region Bouenza (can also be written as ''Buenza'') is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southern part of the country. It borders the departments of Lékoumou, Niari, and Pool, and internatio ...

Loudima District Loudima is a district in the Bouenza Region Bouenza (can also be written as ''Buenza'') is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southern part of the country. It borders the departments of Lékoumou, Niari, and Pool, and internat ...

Kayes District Nkayi is a district in the Bouenza Region Bouenza (can also be written as ''Buenza'') is a department of the Republic of the Congo in the southern part of the country. It borders the departments of Lékoumou, Niari, and Pool, and internatio ...

#* Former Nkayi District minus Nkayi Commune (?) # Kingoué District #* Part of the former Mouyondzi District # Mabombo District #* Part of the former Madingou/Mouyondzi Districts (?) # Tsiaki District #* Part of the former Mouyondzi District # Yamba District #* Part of the former Mouyondzi District

Communes

# Nkayi Commune #

Commune

Demographics

The population is 309,073 in 2007, and the area is 12,265.4 km². (Tableau 1 & Tableau 3)

Industry and agriculture

Bouenza has some industry and

cash crop A cash crop or profit crop is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term is used to differentiate marketed crops from staple crop (or "subsistence crop") in subsist ...

s. Among the principal activities are a

cement A cement is a binder, a chemical substance used for construction that sets, hardens, and adheres to other materials to bind them together. Cement is seldom used on its own, but rather to bind sand and gravel (aggregate) together. Cement mixe ...

factory in

sugar cane Sugarcane or sugar cane is a species of (often hybrid) tall, perennial grass (in the genus '' Saccharum'', tribe Andropogoneae) that is used for sugar production. The plants are 2–6 m (6–20 ft) tall with stout, jointed, fibrous stalk ...

plantations in Nkayi, and there are reserves of

copper Copper is a chemical element with the symbol Cu (from la, cuprum) and atomic number 29. It is a soft, malleable, and ductile metal with very high thermal and electrical conductivity. A freshly exposed surface of pure copper has a pink ...

lead Lead is a chemical element with the symbol Pb (from the Latin ) and atomic number 82. It is a heavy metal that is denser than most common materials. Lead is soft and malleable, and also has a relatively low melting point. When freshly cut, ...

and

zinc Zinc is a chemical element with the symbol Zn and atomic number 30. Zinc is a slightly brittle metal at room temperature and has a shiny-greyish appearance when oxidation is removed. It is the first element in group 12 (IIB) of the periodi ...

Hydroelectric power Hydroelectricity, or hydroelectric power, is electricity generated from hydropower (water power). Hydropower supplies one sixth of the world's electricity, almost 4500 TWh in 2020, which is more than all other renewable sources combined an ...

is provided by the Moukoukoulou Dam built in Mindouli.

Farming Agriculture or farming is the practice of cultivating plants and livestock. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled peopl ...

includes

banana A banana is an elongated, edible fruit – botanically a berry – produced by several kinds of large herbaceous flowering plants in the genus ''Musa''. In some countries, bananas used for cooking may be called "plantains", disting ...

palm oil Palm oil is an edible vegetable oil derived from the mesocarp (reddish pulp) of the fruit of the oil palms. The oil is used in food manufacturing, in beauty products, and as biofuel. Palm oil accounted for about 33% of global oils produced fr ...

groundnut Groundnut may refer to: * Seeds that ripen underground, of the following plants, all in the Faboideae subfamily of the legumes: ** ''Best Basketball Player'', Obinna Udunni ** ''Arachis villosulicarpa'', a perennial peanut species ** ''Vigna subt ...

tobacco Tobacco is the common name of several plants in the genus '' Nicotiana'' of the family Solanaceae, and the general term for any product prepared from the cured leaves of these plants. More than 70 species of tobacco are known, but the ...

and

bean A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes th ...

References

FallingRain Map - centred on Madingou

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