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.
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- …lies at an elevation of 547 metres (1,795 feet)
- …is also known as “Lukuga”
- Description: It is an outlet river of lake Tanganyika in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lukuga River
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Latitude
-5.6586° or 5° 39′ 31″ south
Longitude
26.91484° or 26° 54′ 53″ east
Open location code
6G688WR7+HW
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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”
- Croatian: “Lukuga”
- Czech: “Lukuga”
- Dagbani: “Lukuga Mɔɣili”
- Dagbani: “Lukuga River”
- Danish: “Lukugafloden”
- Dutch: “Lukuga”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوكوجا”
- Esperanto: “Lukugo”
- Estonian: “Lukuga jõgi”
- French: “Lukuga”
- Galician: “Río Lukuga”
- German: “Lukuga”
- Hausa: “Kogin Lukuga”
- Hungarian: “Lukuga”
- Igbo: “Osimiri 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”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Lukuga”
- Ukrainian: “Лукуга”
- Venetian: “Fiume Lukuga”
- Welsh: “Afon Lukuga”
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