| Eastern Province | |
| Information | |
| Country |  Democratic Republic of Congo |
|---|---|
| Area | 503 239 km² |
| Population | 9 003 000 hab. () |
| Density | 17,89 inhab./km² |
| Location | |
 2 ° 19 ′ 48 ″ N 26 ° 51 ′ 0 ″ E | |
the North East of Congo formerly called Eastern Province is made up of the provinces of Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, Ituri and Tshopo.
Understand
It has several tourist attractions which can be visited from the city of Kisangani, A modern city and the point of departure and arrival for navigation on the Congo River from Mbandaka and from Kinshasa on the longest navigable reach. You can admire the wagenia fishermen with their traps in the middle of the rapids. Lokele fishermen who live in unique floating villages. The falls of the Tshopo. In the Ituri forest, the okapi (Okapia johnstoni) animal resembling antelopes and zebra but from the giraffe family which only exists in Congo. On the border with South Sudan, Garamba Park (500,000 ha), listed by Unesco as a world tourist site and where we still find the white Nile rhinoceros, the last specimen of a rare animal; we meet giraffes and birds of the steppes. The Garamba na Bodio Domestication Center offers the possibility of an elephant trek.
To the south stretches the site of Mount Hoyo and its "Staircase of Venus" waterfalls. Straddling the Province Orientale and the Kivu, Maiko National Park (1,000,000 ha) which brings together three rare species from the Congo, the Congo peacock (Afropavo congensis), the okapi and the mountain gorilla (Gorilla beringei), as well as the white rhino (Ceratotherium simum), one of the rarest animals in the world today; there are also elephants, buffalos and hippos.
