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Rivers in Angola
YearMaps maps 12 rivers in Angola. The full list follows.
How this list is built: Listed alphabetically. A river is listed where its mapped reach lies, so long rivers appear under more than one country. It covers the rivers indexed in YearMaps, drawn from open geospatial data, and is not an exhaustive national register.
- Rivers Listed
- 12
- With Full Profile
- 10
Linked to a detail page
| Name | Type | Also Flows Through |
|---|---|---|
| Cuando | River | Zambia, Namibia, Botswana |
| Cuanza | River | — |
| Cubango | River | Namibia |
| Cunene | River | Namibia |
| Inkisi | River | DR Congo |
| Kasai | River | DR Congo |
| Kwango | River | DR Congo |
| Kwilu | River | DR Congo |
| Lucala | River | — |
| Lungwebungu | River | Zambia |
| Okavango | River | Botswana, Namibia |
| Zambezi | River | Zambia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Namibia |
About the Rivers of Angola
The 10 rivers above with an encyclopedia article, in brief. Each name opens the river's full page, with its course on the map.
- Cuando
- The Cuando is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana. Below the swamp, the river is called the Linyanti River and, farther east, the Chobe River, before it flows into the Zambezi River. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Cuanza
- The Cuanza River, also known as the Kwanza, the Quanza, or the Coanza, is the longest river in Angola. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean just south of the national capital Luanda. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Cunene
- The Cunene or Kunene is a river in Southern Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands southwards to the border with Namibia. It then flows in a westerly direction along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Kasai
- The Kasai River is a left bank tributary of the Congo River, located in Central Africa. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Kwango
- The Cuango or Kwango is a transboundary river of Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the largest left bank tributary of the Kasai River in the Congo River basin. It flows through Malanje in Angola. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Kwilu
- The Kwilu River is a major river in both Lunda Norte Province and Lunda Sul Province in Angola as well as Kwilu Province, formerly known as Bandundu province, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the city of Bandundu, where it joins the Kwango River just before this stream enters the Kasai River. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Lucala
- The Lucala River is a river in Angola, a right tributary of Angola's largest river, the Cuanza River. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
- Lungwebungu
- The Lungwebungu River of Central Africa is the largest tributary of the upper Zambezi River. The headwaters of the Lungwebungu are in central Angola at an elevation around 1,400 metres, and it flows south-east across the southern African plateau. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Quick Answers
- How many rivers are there in Angola?
- YearMaps lists 12 rivers for Angola. This is the number mapped in the atlas, not an official national count.
- Which rivers of Angola also flow through other countries?
- The Cuando (also Zambia, Namibia, Botswana); The Cubango (also Namibia); The Cunene (also Namibia); The Inkisi (also DR Congo); The Kasai (also DR Congo); The Kwango (also DR Congo); The Kwilu (also DR Congo); The Lungwebungu (also Zambia), and 2 more in the table above.