Kafue River
The 1,576 kilometres long Kafue River is the longest river lying wholly within Zambia. Its water is used for irrigation and for generating hydroelectric power.
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- …lies at an elevation of 386 metres (1,266 feet)
- …is also known as “Lufuu”
- Description: river in Zambia
Kafue River
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Latitude
-15.93333° or 15° 56′ south
Longitude
28.91667° or 28° 55′ east
Open location code
5GPC3W88+MM
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Kafue River” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Kafuerivier”
- Arabic: “نهر كافوي”
- Armenian: “Կաֆուե”
- Asturian: “Ríu Kafue”
- Belarusian: “Кафуэ”
- Bulgarian: “Кафуе (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Кафуе”
- Catalan: “Riu Kafue”
- Cebuano: “Kafue (suba)”
- Cebuano: “Kafue”
- Chinese: “卡富埃河”
- Chinese: “卡福埃河”
- Chuvash: “Кафуэ”
- Czech: “Kafue”
- Danish: “Kafue (flod)”
- Danish: “Kafue”
- Dutch: “Kafue”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر كافو”
- Esperanto: “Rivero Kafue”
- Estonian: “Kafue jõgi”
- French: “Kafue”
- Georgian: “კაფუე”
- German: “Kafue”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kafue River”
- Hausa: “Kogin Kafue”
- Hindi: “काफुए नदी”
- Hindi: “काफ़ुए नदी”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Kafue”
- Inari Sami: “Kafue”
- Inari Sami: “Kafuejuuhâ”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Kafue”
- Irish: “Abhainn Kafue”
- Italian: “Kafue”
- Japanese: “カフエ川”
- Japanese: “カフュー川”
- Latvian: “Kafue”
- Lithuanian: “Kafuė”
- Malayalam: “കഫ്യൂ നദി”
- Mingrelian: “კაფუე”
- Northern Sami: “Kafue”
- Northern Sami: “Kafuejohka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kafue”
- Norwegian: “Kafue”
- Polish: “Kafue”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cafué”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kafue”
- Romanian: “Râul Kafue”
- Russian: “Кафуэ”
- Skolt Sami: “Kafue”
- Skolt Sami: “Kafuejokk”
- Slovak: “Kafue”
- Slovenian: “Kafue”
- Somali: “Webiga Kafue”
- South Azerbaijani: “کافوه چایی”
- Spanish: “Rio Kafue”
- Spanish: “Río Kafue”
- Swahili: “Kafue”
- Swedish: “Kafue”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Kafue”
- Turkish: “Kafue Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Кафуе”
- Uzbek: “Kafue”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Kafue”
- Welsh: “Afon Kafue”
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