Omeonga is a town in the Sankuru province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It lies around south southeast of the nearest large town, Katako-Kombe. The Lomami river also passes nearby.
Chiefs or possessors of the name Omeonga are considered noble. It is also a name meaning "Man of Pillars" or "Noble".
Impact structure
The town lies near the center of a 30 km diameter depression, which is a proposed but unconfirmed ancient impact structure called the "Wembo-Nyama ring structure".The Full Catalogue of the Earth's Impact structures . Siberian Center For Global Catastrophes. Department of Mathematical Problems of Geophysics, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics. Siberian Division, Russian Academy of Sciences. The roundness of the ring is underlined by a tributary of the Lomami river.E. Martellato; G. Cremonese; M. Massironi; and G. Monegato (2010). Omeonga (Wembo-Nyama): Isale Hydrocode Simulations, Nördlingen Ries Crater Workshop A similar visual effect can be seen with Manicouagan impact structure in central Quebec, Canada, where a ring of water surrounds the central René-Levasseur Island.
See also Siljan Ring List of possible impact structures on Earth
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External links
Google Earth view of Omeonga and around