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The Ndjili River is a river that flows from the south through the capital city of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where it joins the Congo River. It separates the districts of Tshangu and Mont Amba. The river gives its name to the Ndjili commune and to the Ndjili International Airport. ==Location== Kinshasa lies in a plain surrounded by hills drained by numerous local rivers, of which the N'sele and N'djili are important tributaries of the Congo River. The climate is tropical, with a dry season and a rainy season. Kinshasa lies just downstream of the Malebo Pool, where the Congo river widens to across for a length of about . The pool has an area of , with the Mbamu island occupying the centre part. The pool is almost above sea level, surrounded at some distance by hills that rise to above sea level. Along the southern shore of the pool the land is swampy between the mouths of the Nsele and Ndjili rivers, a distance of , with the swamps covering . The swamps extend inland along the Ndjili. During the colonial era, Jesuits who settled on the Ndjili River in June 1893 at Kimbangu, in what is now Masina, were the first Catholic missionaries in the area. However, within a month they moved away from the unhealthy, swampy conditions that they found to Kimwenza, near the Petites Chutes de la Lukaya. These are small falls on the Lukaya River, a tributary of the Ndjili that enters from the west after running along the southern boundary of present-day Kinshasa. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ndjili River」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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