Duru River
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| Duru River | |
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| Location | |
| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Province | Haut-Uélé |
| Physical characteristics | |
| Source | |
| • coordinates | 4°20′23″N 29°13′34″E / 4.3398°N 29.2260°E |
| Mouth | Uele River |
• coordinates | 3°44′59″N 28°02′43″E / 3.7497°N 28.04533°E |
The Duru River is a river of the Haut-Uélé province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is a right tributary of the Uele River.
The river rises on the border with South Sudan (the Congo-Nile Divide) in the Réserve de chasse d'Azande and flows southwest to enter the Uele upstream from Niangara. Duru village is beside the river on the boundary of the Réserve de chasse d'Azande at 4°14′42″N 28°45′09″E / 4.2450°N 28.7525°E. It is on the road leading from Dungu north to Yambio in South Sudan.[1]
Indigenous people
The Avaduru, a Bakango group, may take their name from the Duru River.[2] The Amiengba and Abogoru lived along the Duru or its tributaries.[3] S. H. F. Capenny wrote that the Abangba were found in the Duru basin.[4] The Duga-Botungba were living at Ukwa (4°14′53″N 29°12′52″E / 4.2480°N 29.2145°E) on the Duru in 1953.[5]
Colonial presence
Georg August Schweinfurth (1836–1925) camped on 18 April 1870 on the right shore of the Uele, which he called the "Kibali", at a place named "Kassanga". Léon Lotar (1877–1943) identifies this with the rapids around the mouth of the Duru.[6]