This article is about the river. For the genus of crickets, see Laupala.
The Luapula River is the middle stretch in red.The Luapula (bottom) forms a swampy delta where it enters Lake Mweru (center, in black), as shown in this false-colour NASA satellite image. Blue lines mark the swamp and its islands (9, 10); a dotted line marks the river's floodplain (11). Red dots (1–8) are towns. See note for full legend.[note 1]
The Luapula River is a north-flowing river of central Africa, within the Congo River watershed.[note 2] It rises in the wetlands of Lake Bangweulu (Zambia), which are fed by the Chambeshi River. The Luapula flows west then north, marking the border between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo before emptying into Lake Mweru. The river gives its name to Zambia's Luapula Province.[2]
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^Pourtier, Roland and Sautter, Gilles François. "Congo River". Encyclopedia Britannica, 19 Feb. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/place/Congo-River. Accessed 8 March 2024
^Terracarta/International Travel Maps, Vancouver Canada: "Zambia, 2nd edition", 2000
The LuapulaRiver is a north-flowing river of central Africa, within the Congo River watershed. It rises in the wetlands of Lake Bangweulu (Zambia), which...
Luapula Province is one of Zambia's ten provinces located in the northern part of the country. Luapula Province is named after the LuapulaRiver and its...
(68 mi) of the total length of the Congo, lying between its LuapulaRiver (upstream) and Luvua River (downstream) segments. Mweru means 'lake' in a number of...
out of the wetlands as the LuapulaRiver. For more than 100 km of its length as it flows to the east of Kasama, the river consists of a maze of channels...
Northern, Luapula, Muchinga and the northern Central Province of Zambia. The Bemba entered Zambia before 1740 by crossing the LuapulaRiver from Kola...
by about seventeen rivers of which the Chambeshi (the source of the Congo River) is the largest, and is drained by the LuapulaRiver. Numbers in round...
if the Chambeshi River, considered the ultimate source stream of the Congo River, were accepted as being the same river as the Luapula. From the British...
Kanyembo Mpemba, crossing the LuapulaRiver at Matanda, conquering the indigenous people known as the Shila in the Luapula Valley, and setting up Luba or...
who got himself appointed as successor to a Wasanga chief west of the LuapulaRiver by defeating the chief's Lunda enemies. Once installed he conquered...
Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around 220 m (720 ft). The Congo–Lualaba–Luvua–Luapula–Chambeshi River system...
adjoining the LuapulaRiver valley. In Northern province, it is practiced everywhere outside the aforementioned Bangweulu lowlands, the Chambeshi River flat,...
Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the LuapulaRiver. The kingdom of Lunda came to an end in the 19th century, when it was...
Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the LuapulaRiver. The Lunda's western expansion also saw claims of descent by the Yaka...
in Chembe District in the Luapula Province of Zambia. It once had the Chembe Ferry as a means of crossing the LuapulaRiver from DR Congo to Zambia; but...
This is a list of the longest rivers on Earth. It includes river systems over 1,000 kilometres (620 mi) in length. There are many factors, such as the...
of most of the Mwata's territory and trade on the west bank of the LuapulaRiver. Tippu Tip wanted revenge on Kazembe for killing six of his men, and...
locality - ephemeral marshes of the Kinikabwimba River, a tributary of Lufutishi River in the middle LuapulaRiver drainage. Nagy, B.; Watters, B. (2019). "Nothobranchius...
Bangweulu. From that lake the LuapulaRiver emerges and flows northward over 500 kilometres (310 mi) to Lake Mweru. The Luvua river exits lake Mweru and flows...
374483; 29.2122434 The Mambatuta Falls is a steep waterfall on the LuapulaRiver, which originates in Lake Bangweulu and flows through Zambia and along...
by scholars to have arrived as part of the Luba migration along the LuapulaRiver, while the Lenje are related to the Ila–Tonga. Modern Lusaka lies on...
1930s, a track from Ndola to Kapalala on the LuapulaRiver, and boat transport from there to the Chambeshi River was the principal trade route for the Northern...
Mwata Kazembe set up an Eastern Lunda kingdom in the valley of the LuapulaRiver. The Lunda's western expansion also saw claims of descent by the Yaka...
on the borders of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Zambia, in Luapula Province. Zambia's formal northern frontier boundary was legally signed...
Mbereshi River (also spelled and pronounced 'Mbeleshi') drains the northern Zambian plateau north of Kawambwa and flows west into the Luapula valley. It...
-10.575825; 28.669982 Mambilima Falls is a series of rapids on the LuapulaRiver on the boundary between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...
traced back to the early civilization along the banks of the Nyanga and Luapularivers in the modern Democratic Republic of Congo. The local social structure...
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