Ekwangatana is the location of a post established by Belgian officers in what is now
Bas-Uélé
Bas-Uélé (French for "Lower Uélé") is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Bas-Uélé, Haut-Uélé, Ituri, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the forme ...
province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Location
Ekwangatana is near the present settlement of
Djamba where the
Rubi River
The Rubi River () is a left tributary of the Itimbiri River, which forms where the Rubi joins the Likati River. Course
The Rubi River originates in the southeast of the Bas-Uélé province, then flows west until it meets the Likati near Djamba.
Th ...
and
Likati River converge to form the
Itimbiri River
The Itimbiri River () is a right tributary of the Congo River, which it joins above Bumba. At one time it was important as a navigable waterway for transporting good from the northeast of the country down to the Congo.
Course
The Itimbiri Rive ...
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It is at an elevation of .
History
Ekwangatana was founded as a government post in May 1890 by
Léon Roget and
Jules Milz, who entrusted it to an African officer.
The Belgian limited company
Société Commerciale et Minière de l´Uelé
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Lactalis is the largest dairy pr ...
(COMUELE) was created in June 1919 as a joint venture between the
Société commerciale et Minière du Congo (Cominière) and the English
Lever Brothers
Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by two brothers: William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), and James Darcy Lever (1854–1916). They invested in and su ...
.
In 1926 it established the Ekwangatana coffee plantations.
A station was set up in Ekwangatana for a magnetic survey of the Belgian Congo in 1936–1937.
It was on the left bank of the Itimbiri (Rubi), in front of the workers' camp of the Comuele Ekwangatana plantation, in a small clearing in the forest about 250 meters south-southwest of the coffee pulping plant.
This survey gave an altitude of .
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Populated places in Bas-Uélé