Aruwimi River

The Aruwimi River (Swahili: Mto Aruwimi, French: Rivière Aruwimi) is a tributary of the Congo River. It starts as the Ituri River, which begins near Lake Albert. The river flows southwest until it meets the Shari River near Bunia. It then turns west through the Ituri Forest and becomes the Aruwimi where the Nepoko River joins it. It finally joins the Congo River at Basoko.

The Aruwimi River is about 1,287 kilometres long. The area around it has dense forest and only a few villages. The river was explored by Henry Morton Stanley during his 1887 expedition. However, the cataracts above Yambuya made travel by river hard, so the expedition had to walk instead.