Luvua River

The Luvua River is a river in the of the . It flows from the northern end of on the -Congo border in a northwesterly direction for 350 kilometres to its confluence with the Lualaba River opposite the town of .
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  • Type: Stream
  • Description: river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Also known as: Luvwa

Luvua River

Latitude
-6.75711° or 6° 45′ 26″ south
Longitude
26.95488° or 26° 57′ 18″ east
Elevation
556 metres (1,824 feet)
Open location code
6G586XV3+5X
Geo­Names ID
210240
Wiki­data ID
Q220839
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Satellite Map

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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
  • Belarusian: Рака Лувуа
  • Catalan: Riu Luvua
  • Cebuano: Luvua
  • Chinese: 盧武阿河
  • Czech: Luvua
  • Danish: Luvua
  • Dutch: Luvua
  • Egyptian Arabic: نهر لوڤوا
  • French: Luvwa
  • German: Luvua
  • Hungarian: 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
  • Spanish: Río Luvua
  • Swahili: Livua
  • Swahili: Luvua
  • Swedish: Luvua
  • Venetian: Fiume Luvua
  • Welsh: Afon Luvua
  • Western Panjabi: لوووا دریا

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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Luvua River”. Photo: Tom Skrinar, CC BY-SA 2.0.