Lungwebungu River
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The Lungwebungu River (in Angola Lungué Bungo) of Central Africa is the largest tributary of the upper Zambezi River.[1] The headwaters of the Lungwebungu are in central Angola at an elevation around Template:Convert, and it flows south-east across the southern African plateau.Script error: No such module "Unsubst". Within Template:Convert it has developed the character which it keeps for most of its course, of extremely intricate meanders, with multiple channels and oxbow lakes, in a swampy channel about Template:Cvt wide which in turn is in a shallow valley with a floodplain Template:Cvt wide, inundated in the wet season.
The edges of the floodplain are a white sandy soil covered in thin forest. The main river channel grows from Template:Cvt wide to Template:Cvt wide near the Zambezi, and its floodplain suddenly broadens as it merges with the Zambezi, at the beginning of the Barotse Floodplain, which is Template:Cvt wide at that point.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
A 2021 study found the river is home to a subspecies of Hippopotamyrus that is distinct from other lineages of the fish.[2]
While the river is a valuable resource to people living near it as a source of fish, its meanders make it unsuitable for water transport except in the wet season when canoes and small boats can navigate the floodwaters.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".