thumb|250px|A [[Wiktionary:cataract|cataract of Inga Falls]]
thumb|250px|Livingstone Falls as seen by Stanley
thumb|250px|Livingstone Falls map
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.
Description
Livingstone Falls consist of a series of rapids dropping in . They start downstream of Malebo Pool and end in Matadi in Bas-Congo. The Congo River has the second largest flow rate in the world after the Amazon, which has no falls or rapids (except near its sources). The lowest rapids of Livingstone Falls, therefore, are the world's largest waterfall in terms of flow rate — provided one accepts these rapids as being a waterfall. An interesting aspect of the Livingstone Falls is the width of the channel. The channel is very narrow: in several stretches the channel width is less than and for the majority of the length the channel is less than wide. This is an extraordinarily narrow channel since the river flow rate typically exceeds . Investigations in 2008 and 2009 showed that sections between the rapids may be as deep as . The powerful rapids separate fish populations from one another, causing new species to evolve in close proximity to one another.