Ekwangatana is the location of a post established by Belgian officers in what is now Bas-Uélé province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

[1] Ekwangatana was founded as a government post in May 1890 by Léon Roget and Jules Milz, who entrusted it to an African officer.

[2] The Belgian limited company Société Commerciale et Minière de l´Uelé (COMUELE) was created in June 1919 as a joint venture between the Société commerciale et Minière du Congo (Cominière) and the English Lever Brothers.

[3] A station was set up in Ekwangatana for a magnetic survey of the Belgian Congo in 1936–1937.

It was on the left bank of the Itimbiri (Rubi), in front of the workers' camp of the Comuele Ekwangatana plantation, in a small clearing in the forest about 250 meters south-southwest of the coffee pulping plant.