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Summary Of: Lake Mweru

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Lake Mweru - Southern end of the lake from space, June 1993 (false color) | Coordinates | Lake type | Rift Valley lakes | Primary inflows | Luapula River | Kalungwishi River | Primary outflows | Luvua River | Basin | Zambia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Islands | Nchelenge | Kashikishi | Chiengi | Kilwa | freshwater | lake | Africa | Congo | Zambia | Democratic Republic of the Congo | Luapula River | Luvua River | Bantu languages | Luapula River | Kalungwishi River | Luvua River | Lualaba River | Congo | drainage basin | Lake Tanganyika | delta | Bangweulu Swamps | rift valley lake | graben | Great Rift Valley | escarpment | Mweru Wantipa | endorheic | dambo | Arab | Swahili | ivory | copper | slaves | Zanzibar | Indian Ocean | Ujiji | Lunda | Luba | Yeke | Kazembe | Atlantic | Portuguese | Francisco de Lacerda | Mozambique | Angola | Kanyembo | David Livingstone | slave | Yeke | Msiri | Alfred Sharpe | Stairs Expedition | Leopold II of Belgium | British | boma | Chiengi | Lake Mweru and its main inlets, the lower Luapula River and its swamps, and the Kalungwishi. Also shown is Mweru's outlet, the Luvua River going on north to the Lualaba and Congo rivers. Water shows up as black in this false-colour NASA satellite image. The extent of the swamps is shown by the solid blue line, and the extent of floodplain is shown as a dotted line. The towns are, in Zambia: 1 Chiengi, 2 Kashikishi, 3 Nchelenge, 4 Mwansabombwe, 5 Mwense; in DR Congo: 6 Pweto, 7 Kilwa, 8 Kasenga. Other features: 9: Chisenga Island, 10 the largest swamp island (in DR Congo), 11 the main floodplain. Image credit: Jacques Descloitres, MODIS Rapid Response Team, NASA/GSFC. | | Belgian Congo | Northern Rhodesia | British | protectorate | Dan Crawford | Plymouth Brethren | Chiengi | Abercorn | British Central Africa | Nyasaland | Alfred Sharpe | Luapula Province border dispute | Katanga | Luapula Province | Elizabethville | Copperbelt | Nchelenge | Kashikishi | Chiengi | Kilwa | Second Congo War | Mporokoso | Kawambwa | Belgians | paddle steamer | Luapula Province | 1987 | Copperbelt | Congo Pedicle road | bream | Tilapia macrochir | Chibemba | Smoking | salting | Greek | Dodecanese islands | charcoal | steam engines | diesel | copper mines | Lubumbashi | Copperbelt | gill nets | kapenta | Dikulushi | Copper Mine | open-cast mine | concentrate | pontoon | ferry | smelter | Tsumeb | Namibia | tourism | wildlife conservation | Mweru Wantipa National Park | Cape buffalo | antelope | lion | Mweru Wantipa National Park | Rift Valley lakes | Luapula River | Luvua River | Kalungwishi River | Kazembe | Katanga | Msiri | Lake Mweru Wantipa | Luapula Province border dispute | Luapula Province | Lake Bangweulu | Lake Mweru Wantipa | Categories | Lakes of the Great Rift Valley | Lakes of the Democratic Republic of the Congo | Lakes of Zambia | International lakes |
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