Mambilima Falls
Mambilima Falls is a series of rapids on the Luapula River on the boundary between Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The falls used to be called the Johnstone Falls.- Waterfall
- …lies at an elevation of 940 metres (3,084 feet)
- Description: rapids on Luapula river
- Also known as“chutes Johnson”“Chutes Johnston”“chutes Mambilima”“Johnston Falls”“Johnstone”“Johnstone Falls”“Luapula falls”“Rapides Johnson”
Mambilima Falls
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
-10.57583° or 10° 34′ 33″ south
Longitude
28.66998° or 28° 40′ 12″ east
Open location code
5GXCCMF9+MX
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Tswana—“Mambilima Falls” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Johnston Falls”
- French: “chutes de Mambilima”
- French: “Chutes de Mambilima”
- French: “chutes Johnstone”
- German: “Mambilimafälle”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Johnston Falls”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Johnstone Falls”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Luapula falls”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Mambilima Falls”
- Hausa: “Magudanar Ruwa ta Mambilima”
- Lingala: “Chutes ya Mambilima”
- Swahili: “Maporomoko Johnstone”
- Swahili: “Maporomoko ya Mambilima”
- Swedish: “Mambilimafallen”
- Tswana: “Diphororo tsa Mambilima”
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