It is a river port with riverboats sailing to Kinshasa via Mbandaka and is also home to an airport.

Boende was captured by mercenaries during the Simba rebellion in January 1964.

[3] This battle was documented in the Mondo documentary Africa Addio.

Boende has an equatorial tropical rainforest climate (Köppen Af) and is hot, humid and wet all year round without pronounced variations in temperature or rainfall.

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