Luena River, Angola

The Luena River in eastern

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rises near the town of

Luena, Angola Luena, formerly known as Luso, is a city and municipality in eastern Angola, administrative capital of Moxico Province. The municipality had a population of 357,413 in 2014. History The Angolan town is best known as the resting place of former UN ...

and flows south-east to the

Zambezi 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 ...

. The name is also used for an ethnic group in the area, the

Luena people The Luvale people, also spelled Lovale, Balovale, Lubale, as well as Lwena or Luena in Angola, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. They are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, but the ...

. Rivers of Angola Tributaries of the Zambezi River {{Angola-river-stub