Lufira River
The Lufira River is a tributary of the Lualaba River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The Lufira rises in the Shaba plateau south of Likasi. The river was dammed in 1926 at Mwadingusha near Likasi to form Lake Tshangalele, a reservoir for a hydroelectric generator supplying power for copper smelting.
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- …lies at an elevation of 562 metres (1,844 feet)
- …is also known as “Lufira”
- Description: river in DR Congo
Lufira River
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Latitude
-8.26605° or 8° 15′ 58″ south
Longitude
26.49031° or 26° 29′ 25″ east
Open location code
6G38PFMR+H4
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Lufira River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Lufira”
- Bulgarian: “Луфира (река)”
- Bulgarian: “Луфира”
- Catalan: “Riu Lufira”
- Cebuano: “Chenal Lufira”
- Chinese: “盧菲拉河”
- Chinese: “路菲拉河”
- Croatian: “Lufira”
- Czech: “Lufira”
- Dutch: “Chenal Lufira”
- Dutch: “Lufira River”
- Dutch: “Lufira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوفيرا”
- French: “Lufira”
- German: “Lufira”
- Hausa: “Kogin Lufira”
- Hebrew: “נהר לופירה”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Lufira”
- Italian: “Lufira”
- Japanese: “ルフィラ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Lufira”
- Lithuanian: “Lufira”
- Malayalam: “ലുഫിര നദി”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Lufira”
- Polish: “Lufira”
- Russian: “Луфира (река)”
- Russian: “Луфира”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Lufira”
- Spanish: “Rio Lufira”
- Spanish: “Río Lufira”
- Swahili: “Lufira”
- Swahili: “Mto Lufira”
- Swedish: “Lufira”
- Tswana: “Noka ya Lufira”
- Venetian: “Fiume Lufira”
- Welsh: “Afon Lufira”
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