Kwango River

The Kwango in the Congo Basin (left).

The Tazua waterfall

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The Kwango ( Cuango / Kuango, also Nzadi, Zaire or Zesere on German also Kuango ) is a 1100 km long left tributary of the Kasai in Angola and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Africa.

It rises in the highlands of central Angola in the middle part of the Lundaschwelle. From its source the Kwango flows predominantly to the north. It partly forms the border of the aforementioned States, there falls over the waterfall Chutes Tembo, finally reached the DR Congo and opens below of Bandundu in the Kasai.

The most important tributary is the Wamba. In Bandundu he joins the Juma (or Kwilu ) to flow shortly thereafter in the Kasai. The headwaters of the Kwango researched Capello and Ivens 1877, its headwaters to Kingunschi Mechow 1880 and its underflow Grenfell 1886.

In the catchment area of the Kwango Yaka, Suku, Mbala, and Pende live.