Congo Democratic Republic 1 Centime banknote 1997
Central Bank of the Congo - Banque Centrale du Congo
Obverse: Woman harvesting coffee beans at left; Monogram of the Central Bank of Congo at center.
Reverse: Coffee branch (Arabica), eruption of Nyiragongo Volcano at right.
Watermark: Single Okapi head or multiple Okapi heads repeated vertically.
Main color: Deep olive-green, violet, and dark brown on multicolored underprint.
Size: 120 x 70 mm.
Printer: AB Tumba Bruk (ATB)., (Tumba Bruk is the printing company responsible for manufacturing of the Swedish krona banknotes).
Congo Democratic Republic Banknotes and Paper Money
1997-2013 Issue
Mount Nyiragongo is an active stratovolcano with an elevation of 3470 m (11382 ft) in the Virunga Mountains associated with the Albertine Rift. It is located inside Virunga National Park, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, about 20 km (12 mi) north of the town of Goma and Lake Kivu and just west of the border with Rwanda. The main crater is about two kilometres wide and usually contains a lava lake. The crater presently has two distinct cooled lava benches within the crater walls - one at about 3,175 metres (10,417 ft) and a lower one at about 2,975 m (9,760 ft). Nyiragongo's lava lake has at times been the most voluminous known lava lake in recent history. The depth of the lava lake varies considerably. A maximum elevation of the lava lake was recorded at about 3,250 m (10,660 ft) prior to the January 1977 eruption - a lake depth of about 600 m (2,000 ft). A recent very low elevation of the lava lake was recorded at about 2,700 m (8,900 ft). Nyiragongo and nearby Nyamuragira are together responsible for 40% of Africa's historical volcanic eruptions.