This is a list of rivers in Angola. This list is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.

Atlantic Ocean The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's five oceans, with an area of about . It covers approximately 20% of Earth's surface and about 29% of its water surface area. It is known to separate the " Old World" of Africa, Europe ...

Chiloango River The Chiloango River ( pt, Rio Chiluango, also known as Kakongo River, Louango, Shiloango and Rio Hi) is a river in western Central Africa. It forms the westernmost part of the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic o ...

Congo River The Congo River ( kg, Nzâdi Kôngo, french: Fleuve Congo, pt, Rio Congo), formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the second largest river in the world by discharge ...

Inkisi River The Inkisi River is the last (closest to the rivermouth) of the larger tributaries of the great Congo River, being the first south bank (left side) tributary, located in Western Central Africa. The township of Zongo is situated close to the conflu ...

Kasai River The Kasai River ( ; called Cassai in Angola) is a tributary (left side) of the Congo River, located in Central Africa. The river begins in central Angola and flows to the east until it reaches the border between Angola and the Democratic Republi ...

(Cassai River) ***

Kwango River The Cuango or Kwango ( pt, Rio Cuango) is a transboundary river of Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo. It is the largest left bank tributary of the Kasai River in the Congo River basin. It flows through Malanje in Angola. The Kwango River ...

(Cuango River) ****

Kwilu River The Kwilu River is a major river in the Kwilu Province formerly known as Bandundu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to the city of Bandundu, where it joins the Kwango River just before this stream enters the Kasai River. In t ...

(Cuilo River) *****

Kwenge River The Kwenge River is a stream in the Bandundu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The river begins in Angola and then for about it forms a short part of the Angola–DRC border. It flows north from the Angola border through the Kwa ...

**** Wamba River (Uamba River) **** Cuilo River **** Cambo River **** Lui River ***

Loange River The Loange River (or Luangué, Luange) is a tributary of the Kasai River. Originating in Angola, the river flows north into the Democratic Republic of the Congo, through the eastern part of Kwango Province, Kwango. The river then continues north al ...

**** Lushiko River *** Lovua River *** Chicapa River *** Luachimo River *** Chiumbe River **** Luia River * Mbridge River * Loge River * Dande River *

Bengo River The Bengo (or Zenza) is a river in northern Angola with a source in the Crystal Mountains. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean north of Luanda in Bengo Province. The river is long with a drainage area of . There is a large reservoir called Kimin ...

(Zenza River) *

Cuanza River The Kwanza River, also known as the Coanza, the Quanza, and the Cuanza, is one of the longest rivers in Angola. It empties into the Atlantic Ocean just south of the national capital Luanda. Geography The river is navigable for about from its ...

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 Cu ...

** Luando River ** Cutato River ** Cunhinga River * Longa River *

Cuvo River The Cuvo is a river in central Angola. The river mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean at Benguela Bay, in Cuanza Sul Province. Cuvo is its name in its upper reaches; its lower course is called the Keve or Queve. The river is navigable upstream to Binga ...

* Quicombo River *

Catumbela River The Catumbela is a river in central Angola. The river mouth is at the Catumbela Estuary on the Atlantic Ocean at Catumbela, between Lobito and Benguela, and from where it rises in the hills of Cassoco. The Catumbela supplies water to the city o ...

** Cuíva River ** Cubal River * Coporolo River *

Bentiaba River The Bentiaba (or ''Rio de São Nicolau'' or Saint Nicolas River) is a river in southern Angola. Its mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean near the commune of Bentiaba in Namibe Province. The riverbank has produced a number of Cretaceous fossils includin ...

(Rio de São Nicolau) *

Bero River The Bero is a river in southern Angola. Its mouth is at Little Fish Bay in the Atlantic Ocean on the north side of the city of Moçâmedes in Namibe Province. History In 1849 Portuguese colonists from Brazil started farms along the river. During ...

* Curoca River *

Cunene River The Cunene (Portuguese spelling) or Kunene (common Namibian spelling) is a river in Southern Africa. It flows from the Angola highlands south to the border with Namibia. It then flows west along the border until it reaches the Atlantic Ocean. It ...

** Caculuvar River

Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by th ...

Zambezi River The Zambezi River (also spelled Zambeze and Zambesi) is the fourth-longest river in Africa, the longest east-flowing river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. Its drainage basin covers , slightly less than hal ...

Cuando River The Cuando River (or Kwando in the non-colonial spelling) is a river in south-central Africa flowing through Angola and Namibia's Caprivi Strip and into the Linyanti Swamp on the northern border of Botswana. Below the swamp, the river is called t ...

*** Luiana River **** Utembo River *** Quembo River **

Luanginga River The Luanginga is a river rising in Angola, which flows into the Zambezi in western Zambia Zambia (), officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and Ea ...

(Luio River) **

Lungwebungu River The Lungwebungu River (in Angola Lungué Bungo) of Central Africa is the largest tributary of the upper Zambezi River. The headwaters of the Lungwebungu are in central Angola at an elevation around , and it flows south-east across the southern Afr ...

(Lungué Bungo River) ** Luena River

Okavango Delta The Okavango Delta (or Okavango Grassland; formerly spelled "Okovango" or "Okovanggo") in Botswana is a swampy inland delta formed where the Okavango River reaches a tectonic trough at an altitude of 930–1,000 m in the central part of the en ...

Okavango River The Okavango River (formerly spelled Okovango or Okovanggo), Also known as the Cubango River, is a river in southwest Africa. It is the fourth-longest river system in southern Africa, running southeastward for . It begins at an elevation of in ...

(Cubango River) ** Cuito River

References

*Prentice-Hall, Inc., ''American World Atlas'' 1985
United Nations 2008GEOnet Names Server
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