Smoked fish for sale in Bumba

Bumba is a town of 108,000 people (2009) in Congo Basin region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the right bank of the Congo River and close to the confluence of the Itimbiri.

Understand

Bumba is a town located in the Northern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, as it has a part that touches on the River Congo this gives this town the opportunity of having the river port, that is widely used as a mean of supplying this town with different goods through water transport.

Get in

FlyCAA has offered occasional flights from Kisangani and Lisala.

• 1 Bumba Airport (BMB  ^IATA).  

Bumba served by the national road RN6 137 km east of the provincial capital Lisala. The Congo links it to Lisala in the west, and Basoko in the east. It is linked by road to Aketi in the east, and Yakoma in the north. The Molua river marks the western limit of the city and separates the Loeka sector from the Molua sector. Notice that roads generally are in a terrible state. Mostly the water transport using Congo River serves this city as main transportation mean.

See

• 1 Cathedral of St. John the Baptist (Cathédrale Saint Jean-Baptiste). Roman Catholic cathedral built during the colonial period, in 1921 (updated Jul 2022)
• Bumba Airport, regional airport.

Do

• Stade Pere Carlos, football playground.

Buy

• Tazita Aco.

Sleep

• Residence Reagan, apartment.

• Pere Carlos.

• Residence Coach, apartment.

Go next

• Congo River.