Cuanza River
The Cuanza River, also known as the Kwanza, the Quanza, or the Coanza, is the longest river in Angola. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean just south of the national capital Luanda.
- Stream
- Description: river in Angola
- Also known as“Coanza River”“Kwanza River”“Quanza River”“Rio Coanza”“Rio Quanza”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Barra do Cuanza.
Barra do Cuanza
Village
Barra do Cuanza is a town and commune of Angola, located in the province of Luanda. Barra do Cuanza is situated 3 km north of Cuanza River.
Cuanza River
- Category: body of water
- Location
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Latitude
-9.34721° or 9° 20′ 50″ south
Longitude
13.15205° or 13° 9′ 7″ east
Open location code
6F2MM532+4R
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Frisian—“Cuanza River” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “نهر كوانزا”
- Basque: “Kwanza”
- Belarusian: “Кванза”
- Belarusian: “Рака Кванза”
- Bulgarian: “Куанза”
- Burmese: “ကွန်ဇာမြစ်”
- Catalan: “Cuanza”
- Cebuano: “Cuanza”
- Chinese: “宽扎河”
- Chinese: “廣薩河”
- Chuvash: “Кванза”
- Croatian: “Kwanza”
- Czech: “Cuanza”
- Czech: “Kwanza”
- Dagbani: “Cuanza Mɔɣili”
- Dagbani: “Cuanza River”
- Danish: “Kwanzafloden”
- Dutch: “Coanza”
- Dutch: “Cuanza”
- Dutch: “Quanza”
- Esperanto: “Kvanzo”
- Finnish: “Cuanza”
- French: “Coanza”
- French: “Cuanza”
- French: “Kwanza”
- French: “Quanza”
- Galician: “Río Cuanza”
- Galician: “Río Kwanza”
- Georgian: “კვანზა”
- German: “Cuanza”
- German: “Kuanza”
- German: “Kwanza”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Coanza River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Cuanza River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Kwanza River”
- Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Quanza River”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Κουάνζα”
- Hausa: “Kogin Cuanza”
- Hebrew: “נהר קוואנזה”
- Hindi: “कूयांजा नदी”
- Hungarian: “Kwanza”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Cuanza”
- Italian: “Cuanza”
- Japanese: “クアンザ川”
- Japanese: “クワンザ川”
- Korean: “콴자 강”
- Korean: “쿠안자 강”
- Korean: “쿠안자강”
- Kotava: “Kwanza (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Kwanza”
- Latin: “Coanza”
- Lithuanian: “Kvanza”
- Macedonian: “Кванза”
- Malagasy: “Kwanza (renirano)”
- Malagasy: “Kwanza”
- Malay: “Sungai Cuanza”
- Malay: “Sungai Kwanza”
- Malay: “Sungai Quanza”
- Malayalam: “കുവാന്സനദി”
- Malayalam: “ക്വാൻസ നദി”
- Mingrelian: “კვანზა (წყარმალუ)”
- Mingrelian: “კვანზა”
- Nauru: “Kwanza”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kwanza”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cuanza”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kwanza”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Kwanzaelva”
- Norwegian: “Kwanza”
- Persian: “رود کوانزا”
- Polish: “Coanza”
- Polish: “Cuanza”
- Polish: “Kuanza”
- Polish: “Quanza”
- Portuguese: “Rio Cuanza”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kuanza”
- Portuguese: “Rio Kwanza”
- Romanian: “Râul Cuanza”
- Russian: “Кванза”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Kwanza”
- Slovenian: “Cuanza”
- Somali: “Webiga Cuanza”
- Spanish: “Kwanza”
- Spanish: “Rio cuanza”
- Spanish: “Río Cuanza”
- Swahili: “Cuanza”
- Swahili: “Kwanza”
- Swedish: “Cuanza”
- Swedish: “Kwanza”
- Thai: “แม่น้ำกวานซา”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Cuanza”
- Turkish: “Cuanza Nehri”
- Ukrainian: “Кванза”
- Welsh: “Afon Cuanza”
- Western Frisian: “Kwanza”
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