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4 unusual facts about Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe


Lake Mai-Ndombe

The lake is within the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe area, the largest Wetland of International Importance recognized by the Ramsar Convention in the world.

Plateaux District

The district is within the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe area, the largest Wetland of International Importance recognized by the Ramsar Convention in the world.

Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe

The city of Mbandaka, capital of Équateur province with a population of around 750,000, is near the center of the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe site.

José Endundo Bononge, DRC Minister of Environment, says: "The enemy of the forest is its misery and poverty… We cannot


Bikoro Territory

The lake lies at the center of the Tumba-Ngiri-Maindombe landscape, the largest Ramsar Convention wetland in the world, a vast area of forest and permanent or seasonal lakes and marshlands that has great environmental and economic value.

Fantasmas

Milton Cardona: Tumba, Quinto, Chequere, Surdo, Claves, Chorus Ensemble

La Nave del Olvido

The most popular songs were "La nave del olvido", "Nadie, simplemente nadie" and "Del altar a la tumba", in what proved to be one of the richest productions of José José, combining the talent of composers such as Armando Manzanero, Rubén Fuentes, Dino Ramos and Nacho González, among others.

Néstor Almendros

But after two of his shorts (Gente en la playa and La tumba francesa) were banned, he moved to Paris.

Ngiri

Ngiri-Ngiri, a municipality (commune) in the Funa district of Kinshasa

Ngiri River, a tributary of the Ubangi River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Ngiri Reserve, a protected area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Stockholm commuter rail

Line 38 runs from Uppsala C in the northeast to Älvsjö in the south via Stockholm Arlanda Airport and Stockholm C, with some trains continuing to Tumba.


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