Lake Zimbambo is a lake in the

Malemba-Nkulu Territory Malemba-Nkulu is a territory in the Haut-Lomami province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referrin ...

Haut-Lomami Haut-Lomami (French for "Upper Lomami") is one of the 21 provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the Subdivisions of the DR Congo#New provinces, 2015 repartitioning. Haut-Lomami, Haut-Katanga, Lualaba Province, Lualaba, and ...

Province, in the southern

Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...

. It is one of the lakes in the

Upemba Depression The Upemba Depression (or Kamalondo Depression) is a large marshy bowl area (Depression (geology), depression) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo comprising some fifty lakes, including 22 of relatively large size including Lake Upemba (530&nbs ...

, an extensive marshy area. The Lualaba River enters the depression about after leaving Lake Delcommune. The depression is a trough-like

graben In geology, a graben () is a depression (geology), depressed block of the Crust (geology), crust of a planet or moon, bordered by parallel normal faults. Etymology ''Graben'' is a loan word from German language, German, meaning 'ditch' or 't ...

about long and wide, running from the southwest to the northeast. The trough is about above sea level at its southwest end, sloping steeply down to an elevation of , where it flattens out and is filled by lakes and marshes for a distance of in a belt that is wide on average. The river generally flows through the marshes between the lakes, to which it is connected by narrow channels.

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