Lungwebungu River

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The Lungwebungu, Angola Lungué Bungo, is a river which rises in Angola on the plateau of the city Chingamba in the Moxico province, flows southeast and empties in Lukulu in Zambia in the Zambezi.

The Lungwebungu is the most powerful tributary of the upper Zambezi River. The river valley is about 645 kilometers long. In it, the river meanders broad meaning so that the actual flow length is a multiple of it if the whole valley is flooded wide in the dry season as in the rainy season. The river is navigable with medium boats, in the rainy season over a creek almost to Cangumbe on the Benguela railway, in the dry season, some 30 kilometers have to be passed to country. He has no waterfalls or rapids, what used to be en route to the area of the upper Zambezi made ​​him, which is difficult to achieve because of its sand over the country. The civil war in Angola has to demolish these trade routes. Its estuary is located in the enormously rich wildlife Liuwa floodplains.