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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Channel
- Description: river in DR Congo
- Also known as: “Lufira”
Lufira River
- Categories: river, watercourse, and body of water
- Location: Haut-Lomami, DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
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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”
- Czech: “Lufira”
- Dutch: “Chenal Lufira”
- Dutch: “Lufira River”
- Dutch: “Lufira”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر لوفيرا”
- French: “Lufira”
- German: “Lufira”
- Hausa: “Kogin Lufira”
- Hebrew: “נהר לופירה”
- 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”
- Swedish: “Lufira”
- Venetian: “Fiume Lufira”
- Welsh: “Afon Lufira”
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