Lucala River
The Lucala River is a river in Angola, a right tributary of Angola's largest river, the Cuanza River. The Lucala has its source in Uíge Province, runs through Malanje Province, where it feeds the Kalandula Falls, and finally empties into the Cuanza River near Massangano in Cuanza Norte Province, some kilometers downstream of Dondo.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: right tributary of Angola’s largest river, the Cuanza River
- Also known as: “Lukalla River”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Massangano Fort.
Massangano Fort
Ruins
Photo: Atospal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Fort Nossa Senhora da Vitória de Massangano, popularly known as Fortress of Massangano is located in the village-commune of Massangano, in the municipality of Cambambe, in the province of Cuanza-Norte, in Angola.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Massangano.
Massangano
Village
Photo: Atospal, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Massangano is a town and commune of Angola, located in the province of Cuanza Norte. Its name is sometimes written Masango. It was esblished by the Portuguese in 1582 as Fort Nossa Senhora da Vitória to be their base of operations in the interior of modern Angola until the late 17th-century.
Lucala River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Cuanza Norte Province, Angola, Central Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Lucala River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Lucala”
- Burmese: “လုကာလာမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Riu Lucala”
- Cebuano: “Lucala”
- Dutch: “Lucala River”
- Esperanto: “Lucala”
- Esperanto: “Lukalo”
- Finnish: “Lucala”
- German: “Lucala”
- Greek: “Λουκάλα”
- Hausa: “Kogin Lukala”
- Irish: “Abhainn Lucala”
- Italian: “Lucala”
- Nauru: “Lukala”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lucala”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Lucala”
- Portuguese: “Rio Lucala”
- Russian: “Лукала”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lucala”
- Spanish: “Rio Lucala”
- Spanish: “Río Lucala”
- Swedish: “Lucala”
- Ukrainian: “Лукала”
- Welsh: “Afon Lucala”
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Notable Places Nearby
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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 “Lucala River”. Photo: L.Willms, CC BY-SA 3.0.