The largest basin in Africa, the largest basin in the Congo Basin

The largest basin in Africa and the largest in the world is the Congo Basin.

The largest basin in the world. Also known as the Zaire Basin. Located in West Central Africa.

It mainly includes Zaire, northeastern Congo, and southern Central Africa. It is square in shape, and the equator runs through the middle. It covers an area of about 3.37 million square kilometers.

It is a typical basin. It is the core part of the Precambrian African paleolandmass. It is composed of ancient metamorphic granite, gneiss, schist, quartzite, etc.

The distribution of rock strata from the basin margin to ** is from old to new, followed by Archean basement complex, Permian-Triassic conglomerate, limestone and sandstone, Jurassic Karo sandstone, alluvial and modern sediments. The terrain is surrounded by plateaus and mountains except for a narrow gap in the southwest. The interior is a plain, with an area of about 1 million square kilometers, with a low terrain, with an average altitude of 300,500 meters, and slopes from southeast to northwest.

Lake Malebo in the north of Kinshasa is the lowest point in the basin at 305 meters above sea level. On the plains, the Congo River and its tributaries have wide valleys with poor drainage, and the river overflows the riverbed and forms large swamps. The plain is surrounded by lonely mountains and hills, with an altitude of 500 600 meters above sea level, which is a transition zone between the plain and the basin highlands.

The edge of the basin is a series of plateaus and mountains. The northern margin is the Central African Highlands, with an average altitude of 700 800 meters, which is the watershed of the three major river systems of the Congo River, Lake Chad and the Nile River. The eastern margin is the Mitumba Mountains; The southeastern margin is the Katanga Plateau at the northern end of the South African Plateau, which is the source of the Congo River and the Zambezi River; The southwestern edge of the Ronda Plateau is the northern extension of the Bié Plateau in Angola, and is the watershed of the Congo River, the Kasai River and the northern Angolan rivers. The western edge is a series of highlands such as the Cameroon Low Plateau, the Suankai Mountains, the Gloria Mountains and the Cascades Plateau. There is a single and complete system of rivers formed by the Congo River and its tributaries.

It is a tropical rainforest climate, high temperature and rain, with annual precipitation of 1500 2000 mm. The tropical rainforest is widespread, with valuable tree species such as ebony, mahogany, ebony, and rosewood. The soil is mainly brick red soil and red soil.

There are diamond, copper and other mineral deposits at the edge of the basin. It is an important agricultural area, producing oil palm, coffee, rubber, tobacco leaves, etc.

The largest basin on Earth is in the middle of the East African continent, called the Congo Basin or Zaire Basin, which is about 1 3 times the size of Canada. This is an important agricultural region in Africa, and the edge of the basin is rich in mineral resources.

Hello! Congo Basin (Zaire Basin) with an area of about 3.37 million square kilometers.

It is located between the Lower Guinea Plateau in West and Central Africa, the Plateau of South Africa and the Azande Plateau, mostly within Zaire, including most of the Congo River (Zaire) basin. Thank you!

The largest basin in Africa is the Congo Basin.

Congo Basin, the largest basin in the world. Also known as the Zaire Basin. Located in West Central Africa. It mainly includes the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the southern part of Central Africa. It is square in shape, and the equator runs through the middle. It covers an area of about 3.37 million square kilometers.

Congo Basin. The largest and most typical basin in Africa, also known as the Zaire Basin. It is located between the Lower Guinea Plateau in West and Central Africa, the Plateau of South Africa and the Azande Plateau, mostly within Zaire, including most of the Congo River (Zaire) basin, with an area of about 3.37 million square kilometers.

The earth is a magical existence, pregnant with many living organisms, when the earth's crust moves, it will bring many changes to the earth's surface, faults, mountains, trenches, basins, continental drift, etc. are all reflections of the earth's crustal movement, but also have an impact on people. Take the basin as an example, the basin contains rich oil and gas resources, which can be used by people and bring convenience to life, and the style of the basin is not to be missed.

The Congo Basin, also known as the Zaire Basin, is the largest and most typical basin in Africa. It is located between the Lower Guinea Plateau, the South African Plateau and the Azande Plateau in central and western Africa, in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon and the Republic of the Congo, including most of the Congo River Basin, covering an area of about 3.37 million square kilometers.

It has the second largest rainforest in the world after the Amazon Plain, and is home to an extremely rich variety of species, including more than 10,000 species of plants, more than 400 species of mammals, more than 1,000 species of birds, and more than 200 species of reptiles. The great forest here is known as one of the largest gene pools of species on Earth.

It is a tectonic basin with a thick layer of sedimentary rock at the base that has been largely undisturbed, forming a flat and monotonous topography, which is broken to some extent by a few sporadic low cliffs caused by faulting.

Sedimentary rocks are deposited in the inner lake. Later, due to the rise of the earth's crust, the original Congo River (Zaire) cut through the western edge of the basin, and the inner lake gradually disappeared. Two large lakes in the southwestern part of the basin today are its remnants.

The basin is surrounded by the slopes of adjacent plateaus with extensive outcrops of basal crystalline rocks.

The area of the tropical rainforest in the Congo Basin of Africa is second only to the tropical rainforest of the Amazon Basin in South America, and it is known as the "second lung of the earth", and it is more than half of the continental countries in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) covers an area of more than 2.3 million square kilometers, 54% of which is covered by forests. The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is rich in 25 kinds of precious wood, such as ebony, mahogany, ashwood, rosewood, and yellow lacquer wood.

The Congo Basin has the second largest tropical rainforest in the world after the Amazon Basin, and is home to an extremely rich variety of species, including more than 10,000 species of plants, more than 400 species of mammals, more than 1,000 species of birds, and more than 200 species of pure fiber reptiles. The great forest here is known as one of the largest gene pools of species on Earth.

There are three nature reserves in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) that have been listed as World Natural Heritage Sites, but they are all scarred by the war. In the Kahuz Beka Nature Reserve in South Kivu province, illegal armed groups have been digging for tantalum and niobium mines, causing severe damage to forest vegetation. In the Karumba Nature Reserve in Eastern Province, armed men of various factions poach elephants and other wild animals, and in 1999 there were about 25 rare white rhinos living here; In the Vilonga Nature Reserve in North Kivu province, armed groups have camped here for more than a decade and fought for each other, and countless refugees have sought shelter here.

The largest basin in the world is the Siberian Basin. The climate of the whole region is cold, and the winter time is more than half a year, and the temperature varies from south to north between -40 degrees and -60 degrees. The average annual temperature is below 0.

The annual rainfall in the area is 400 1200 mm, the evaporation is small, and the soil is mainly sandy and silty soil, and there is a lack of argillaceous soil. Crops can only grow in the southernmost lowlands and plains, where temperatures are relatively high, especially in summer, for longer periods of time.

Overview of the WestThe climate of the whole region is cold, and the winter time is more than half a year, and the temperature varies from south to north between -40 degrees and -60 degrees. The average annual temperature is below 0. The annual rainfall in the area is 400 1200 mm, the evaporation is small, and the soil is mainly sandy and silty soil, and there is a lack of argillaceous soil.

Crops can only grow in the southernmost lowlands and plains, where temperatures are relatively high, especially in summer, for longer periods of time.

There is a shortage of building materials in the area, and other industrial and civil materials are transported except timber. At present, more than 6 million tons of various buildings and equipment need to be transported from other places every year, and there is a trend of increasing. The whole area is sparsely populated, and there are basically no long-distance roads in the plains, so the traffic is difficult.