# Livingstone Falls

- **Coordinates:** -4.321944, 15.207778
- **Caption:** The beginning of the Livingstone Falls near Kinshasa
- **Image Size:** 250px

Livingstone Falls (French: Chutes Livingstone; Dutch: Livingstonewatervallen), named for British explorer David Livingstone, are a succession of enormous rapids on the lower course of the Congo River in west equatorial Africa, downstream from Malebo Pool in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

![Photo of Livingstone Falls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7b/Chutes_Livingstone.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingstone_Falls (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)