Nyangwe

Nyangwe, on the right bank of the Lualaba River in DR Congo's Maniema Province, holds a dense 19th-century history as a Swahili–Arab trading hub for ivory, gold, and slaves, founded around 1860 under the influence of the slave trader Tippu Tip. David Livingstone, the first European to visit in 1871, witnessed a massacre of hundreds at the town market. Henry Morton Stanley departed from here in 1877 to follow the Lualaba downstream, ultimately establishing it as a source of the Congo River.

• Nearest water from center 2.2 km1.4 mi