The Nzoro River (or Nzaro, Obi, Zoro) is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a right tributary of the

Kibali River The Kibali River is a tributary to the Uele River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It originates in the mountains near Lake Albert and flows west for about to join the Dungu River at Dungu where the Uele River is formed. The Uele is a ...

. It is used to supply hydroelectric power to the

Kibali Gold Mine The Kibali Gold Mine is a combined open pit and underground gold mine in the Haut-Uélé province of the northeast Democratic Republic of the Congo. By area, it is one of the largest in Africa. The mine is named for the nearby Kibali River. Loc ...

Course

The Nzoro River originates in the extreme northeast of the country, near where the border with

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joins the border with

Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The south ...

. It follows a meandering course in a generally west direction to its junction with the Kibali downstream from Durba. The

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is Aw:

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, wet.

Human impact

The

Logo people The Logo people or Logoa (plural) are an ethnic group of Nilotic origin who live predominantly in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as parts of western Uganda and southern South Sudan. There are believed to be more t ...

and

Lugbara people The Lugbara are a Central Sudanic ethnic group who live mainly in the West Nile region of Uganda, in the adjoining area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and few in South Sudan. They speak the Lugbara language, a Central Sudanic langu ...

live in the river basin. In 1891

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, and

Jules Milz Jules Alexandre Milz (10 September 1861 – 1 October 1902) was a Belgian soldier who was active in exploring the northeast of the Congo Free State. He traveled extensively in Uele District, where he resolved the question of whether the Uele Rive ...

travelled from Bumba up the

Itimbiri 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 River or ...

and

Likati Likati is a town in the Aketi Territory of Bas-Uélé Province in the north of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Location Likati is on the N4 road from Buta to Bondo. The Likati River, a tributary of the Rubi River flows in a s ...

, rivers, then overland to the

Uele River The Uele, also known by the phonetically identical Uélé, Ouélé, or Welle River, is a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Course The Uele forms at Dungu, at the confluence of the Dungu and Kibali rivers, which both originate ...

in the region of

Djabir Bondo (formerly Djabir) is a town in north-central Democratic Republic of the Congo, in Bas-Uele Province, about 200 km north-west of Buta. Bondo lies mainly on the north bank of the Uele River. As of 2009 it had an estimated population of ...

. They then explored the Kibali and the Zoro. They reached the Nile, but had to retreat to the Dungu region when they were attacked by Mahdists. The

, operated by Randgold, started operations in 2009. The company installed a 20 MW hydroelectric power plant on the Nzoro River, and planned to install three more. The power plants are on cataracts and provide

run-of-the-river hydroelectricity Run-of-river hydroelectricity (ROR) or run-of-the-river hydroelectricity is a type of hydroelectric generation plant whereby little or no water storage is provided. Run-of-the-river power plants may have no water storage at all or a limited amo ...

, avoiding the need for dams.

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