The poles
Tall and wooden.
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Boyoma Falls, once called Stanley Falls, is a series of seven cataracts on the Lualaba River between the towns of Ubundu and Kisangani, in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Visitors see the last of them, the Wagenia Falls, at the edge of Kisangani. None of the cataracts is more than five metres high, but they stretch over more than 100 km with a total drop of 61 metres. They are the largest falls in the world by annual volume of water, ahead of Niagara and Iguazu. Below them the river is called the Congo. The last cataract is named after the Wagenia fishermen and their special way of fishing. You see roaring brown water rushing over flat rocks, and above it a web of tall wooden poles that the fishermen fix in holes the water has carved in the rock. Large cone-shaped baskets hang from the poles to catch fish, and the wide river runs off towards a horizon of forest. The Wagenia Falls are about 3 km from central Kisangani in a straight line. The fishermen usually ask a small fee to watch the falls from the rocks.
Tall and wooden.
Cone-shaped.
Brown and roaring.
South-east of Kisangani, Tshopo, DR Congo
After the Wagenia fishermen who fish here with baskets on wooden poles.
No, none is over five metres, but the volume of water is huge.