Lotoko | |
Settlement Type: | Village |
Pushpin Map: | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Pushpin Relief: | y |
Coordinates: | -0.291°N 19.8719°W --> |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Sankuru |
Subdivision Type2: | Territory |
Subdivision Name2: | Ingende Territory |
Subdivision Type3: | Collectivity |
Subdivision Name3: | Eungu |
Unit Pref: | Metric |
Elevation M: | 325 |
Lotoko is a community on the Busira River in the Province of Équateur in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. In the colonial period it held a trading post.
Lotoko is on the south shore of the Busira River in the Province of Équateur about downstream from the point where the Salonga River joins the Busira from the left.It is in Ingende Territory. It is at an elevation of about .
Lotoko was a post of the Société anonyme belge pour le commerce du Haut-Congo (SAB) in the Mbala–Londji territory, near the villages of the Lingoy chiefdom."Lotoko" is the name of a group of Mongo people.The trading posts and missions were often given the same name as the local people.
The Belgians were brutal in collecting rubber. An account by a local person of SAB activities in collecting rubber (caoutchouc or CTC) says,