The Congo river basin, of which the reserve and forest are a part, is one of the largest drainage systems in Africa.

保护区及其森林属扎伊尔河流域的一部分，而这个流域是非洲最大的排水系统之一。

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For more than 200 years, expeditions have set off into the jungles of the Congo river basin in search of the mythical Mobele-Mbembe - the "one who stops the flow of rivers," in a local Bantu dialect.

早在两百年前起，就有探险队深入刚果河流域的森林，寻找着传说中神秘的刚果恐龙——在当地班图语里，刚果恐龙意为“截河断流的怪物”。

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It was not the first time that Russians had stumbled on the Amur, by some measures the world's sixth-longest river, longer than the Mekong or the Congo and draining a basin bigger than the Yangzi's.

这并不是俄国人第一次发现黑龙江(一种说法是黑龙江是世界第六长的河，超过湄公河和刚果河的长度，流域面积超过长江)。

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Deep in the jungle of the Congo River basin, far from the eyes of most of the world, a largely forgotten African war is being fought.

BBC: Congo Brazzaville's hidden war