Mayombe

It lies on the right bank of the Congo River (the world's second largest) just before it empties into the Atlantic Ocean at Banana.

The long dry season from June to September in the Mayumbe is not as intense as in the rest of the Lower Congo because of the altitude and the influence of the forest.

This feeling of constant humidity is further increased by the condensation of the vapors of the trade winds that cool the cliffs of the Coastal Range.

The Mayombe Railway linked Boma to Tshela, with a planned extension to the Republic of Congo.

Mayombe is famous in Senegal because it is an important stage in the exile of the founder of mouridism, Cheikh Ahmadou Bamba, during the French colonial administration.