Luvua River
The Luvua River is a river in the Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It flows from the northern end of Lake Mweru on the Zambia-Congo border in a northwesterly direction for 350 kilometres to its confluence with the Lualaba River opposite the town of Ankoro.
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- …lies at an elevation of 556 metres (1,824 feet)
- …is also known as “Luvwa”
- Description: river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Luvua River
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Latitude
-6.75711° or 6° 45′ 26″ south
Longitude
26.95488° or 26° 57′ 18″ east
Open location code
6G586XV3+5X
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Western Panjabi—“Luvua River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Luvuarivier”
- Asturian: “Ríu Luvua”
- Belarusian: “Лувуа”
- Catalan: “Riu Luvua”
- Cebuano: “Luvua”
- Chinese: “盧武阿河”
- Croatian: “Luvua”
- Czech: “Luvua”
- Dagbani: “Luvua Mɔɣili”
- Dagbani: “Luvua River”
- Danish: “Luvua”
- Dutch: “Luvua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوڤوا”
- French: “Luvwa”
- German: “Luvua”
- Hausa: “Kogin Luvua”
- Hungarian: “Luvua”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Luvua”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Luvua”
- Italian: “Luvua”
- Japanese: “ルヴア川”
- Japanese: “ルブア川”
- Kazakh: “Ловуа”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Luvua”
- Latvian: “Luvua”
- Lingala: “Luvwa”
- Lithuanian: “Luvua”
- Malayalam: “ലുവുഅ നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Luvua”
- Norwegian: “Luvua”
- Polish: “Luvua”
- Russian: “Лувуа”
- Slovenian: “Luvua”
- Somali: “Webiga Luvua”
- Spanish: “Río Luvua”
- Swahili: “Livua”
- Swahili: “Luvua”
- Swahili: “Mto Luvua”
- Swedish: “Luvua”
- Venetian: “Fiume Luvua”
- Welsh: “Afon Luvua”
- Western Panjabi: “لوووا دریا”
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