Matadi is a port of the Democratic republic of Congo and the capital of the province of the Low-Congo. The city, founded in 1886 to convey goods of and towards the interior by left bank of the river, shelters some 245.862 inhabitants (2004). Matadi is located on left bank of the river Congo, approximately halfway between the Atlantic Ocean and the capital Kinshasa.

The Port of Matadi is a true open door towards outside for entirety of the country. The sea-going ships there accost, and allow the provisioning of Kinshasa by the train and the road. A pipeline ensures the transport of oil products in addition.

The stage Lumumba is the principal Stade of the town of Matadi.

Geography

Matadi profits from a particular localization: the city is in extreme cases extreme of the zone of navigability accessible since the Port from Banana, on the mouth of the river, located at 148 kilometers towards the west. The confluence of Congo with the river Me pozo is also upstream city. The canyon of the river is the way of passage of the railroad towards Kinshasa.

The city, stretched with hillside, draws its name from the broken environment which accommodates it, of the proximity of the rapids. Matadi indeed means stones in Kikongo.

The border with the Angola is located at a few kilometers towards the south and the downstream of the river.

A 722 meters length stayed bridge builds in 1983, called Pont Matadi (in the past Pont Marshal), connects the city to Right Bank, allowing the access to the town of Boma and the hydroelectric stopping of Inga. It is the largest mixed bridge rail-road suspended of the world (Photo). However, the railroad was not installed yet on the bridge.

Upstream of the city can be observed the rock of Diogo Cão, where the famous Portuguese explorer carved, in 1482, the mark of the boundary point of its increase of the river.