Luangwa River

The Luangwa in South Luangwa National Park

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The current flowing in southern Africa Luangwa (Portuguese: Rio Aruângua ) is a 806 km long left tributary of the Zambezi River in Zambia.

The water-rich river originates in the high frontier mountains of Zambia and Malawi to the west of the northern end of Lake Malawi, the Mafinga Hills, the foothills of the Poroto mountains and the northern Muchinga Mountains in Isoka, but turns away from the lake to the south-west to flow through the eastern Zambia. The river winds through the inaccessible, sparsely populated, wide and high altitude valley of Nordluangwa National Park and the Luambe National Park on through the South Luangwa National Park. In its lower course it forms the border with Mozambique and flows almost 80 km to the south on the border of Mozambique, Zambia and Zimbabwe at Zumbo in the Zambezi. The Luangwa valley is surrounded for long stretches of high rock walls, so that it is impassable to most places in East-West direction. The height difference between peaks and valley floor is up to a thousand meters, particularly in the northern part of the river. East and west of the valley leads at a distance in each case a road in north-south direction.

In Mporokoso there is another river in Zambia, which is called Luangwa and is visited because of Mumbulumafälle.