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Key facts
- Countries
- Angola Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Source
- Alto Chicapa
- Location
- Angola , Angola
- Elevation
- 1,647 ft (502 m)
- Mouth
- At Bandundu into Kasai River in Congo River basin
- Length
- 1,100 km (680 mi)
- Basin size
- 263,500 km (101,700 mi )
- Average
- 3,299 m /s (116,500 cu ft/s)
- River system
- Cuango
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- Tazua.jpg
- Length
- 1770
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- Commons category
- Kwango River
- watershed area
- 263500
- discharge
- 2700
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The Cuango or Kwango (Portuguese: Rio Cuango; French: Rivière Kwango; Dutch: Kwango Rivier) 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 basin has large resources of diamonds in the Chitamba-Lulo Kimberlite Cluster in Lunda Norte Province, discovered in the main river channel and on flats and terraces in its flood plains. In the 19th century, the Kwango River was also called the Quango, especially in the works of explorer David Livingstone.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
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Congo
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Bandundu
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Angola
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Zambezi River
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drainage basin
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David Livingstone
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palm oil
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Okavango River
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Ubangi River
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Kasai River
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Lunda Sul Province
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Lunda Norte Province
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