Lukuga River
The Lukuga River is a tributary of the Lualaba River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo that drains Lake Tanganyika. It is unusual in that its flow varies not just seasonally but also due to longer term climate fluctuations.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Tom Skrinar, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Stream
- Description: It is an outlet river of lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Also known as: “Lukuga”
Lukuga River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Tanganyika, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Lukuga River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Lukuga River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Lukuga”
- Belarusian: “Лукуга”
- Bulgarian: “Лукуга”
- Catalan: “Riu Lukuga”
- Cebuano: “Lukuga”
- Chinese: “盧庫加河”
- Chinese: “魯庫加河”
- Czech: “Lukuga”
- Danish: “Lukugafloden”
- Dutch: “Lukuga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوكوجا”
- Esperanto: “Lukugo”
- Estonian: “Lukuga jõgi”
- French: “Lukuga”
- Galician: “Río Lukuga”
- German: “Lukuga”
- Hungarian: “Lukuga”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Lukuga”
- Irish: “Abhainn Lukuga”
- Italian: “Fiume Lukuga”
- Italian: “Lukuga”
- Japanese: “ルクガ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Lukuga”
- Kongo: “Lukuga”
- Lingala: “Lukaya”
- Lingala: “Lukuga”
- Lithuanian: “Lukuga”
- Malayalam: “ലുകുഗ നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lukuga”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lukuga”
- Norwegian: “Lukuga”
- Polish: “Lukuga”
- Russian: “Лукуга”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lukuga”
- Spanish: “Lukuga”
- Spanish: “Rio Lukuga”
- Spanish: “Río Lukuga”
- Swahili: “Lukuga”
- Swahili: “Mto Lukuga”
- Swedish: “Lukuga”
- Ukrainian: “Лукуга”
- Venetian: “Fiume Lukuga”
- Welsh: “Afon Lukuga”
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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 “Lukuga River”. Photo: Tom Skrinar, CC BY-SA 2.0.