Talk:Congo Basin

Merger proposal Congo (region)
The topics Congo Basin and Congo (region) are largely, if not totally, overlapping. Also, the name for the region is clearly taken from the river Congo, ie from the same. -DePiep (talk) 12:03, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * I agree. It would be good to have one page for the place loosly referred to as "The Congo".--Alastair Rae (talk) 12:10, 14 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Also, am I right when the Congo Basin will be the remaining page? Looks like the geography should be leading. -DePiep (talk) 09:13, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Maybe "region" is more general, meaning both the geography (basin) and the countries. I think the common understanding of "The Congo" is DRC+RoC rather than the basin. --Alastair Rae (talk) 11:35, 20 October 2009 (UTC)
 * Sure, mostly it is understood to be DRC and or or RoC (as I learned from trying to disambiguate some 100 pages; I added a intermediiate redirection-page Congo (country) for these). But we still need something for the whole region. For this I prefer "Basin", since it is not arbitrary (decided by the watershed). "region" may be understood to have undefined borders. -DePiep (talk) 19:16, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

✅ -DePiep (talk) 02:29, 2 November 2009 (UTC)

sedimentary vs drainage basin
There is difference: "sedimentary basin" in geological meaning and "drainage basin" in hydrological meaning.-xfi- (talk) 07:37, 23 June 2017 (UTC)

OCEAN Link
Link to "OCEAN" in last paragraph actually links to a psychology topic. Any ideas? Avians (talk) 20:36, 6 October 2018 (UTC)

uncited and confusing sentence
"The first inhabitants of the Congo Basin area were believed to be pygmies and at that time, the dense forests and wet climate kept the population of the region low, with the prevention of hunter-gatherer society, whose remnants of their culture survive to the present day."

are the pygmies not hunter-gatherers? if so, they apparently weren't "prevented", if they "survive". I suspect some sort of editing error. Elinruby (talk) 20:57, 7 May 2022 (UTC)