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Luapula River
The Luapula River is a section of Africa's second-longest river, the Congo. It is a transnational river forming for nearly all its length part of the border between Zambia and the DR Congo. It joins Lake Bangweulu (wholly in Zambia) to Lake Mweru (shared between the two countries) and gives its name to the Luapula Province of Zambia.〔Terracarta/International Travel Maps, Vancouver Canada: "Zambia, 2nd edition", 2000〕
== Source and upper Luapula ==
The Luapula drains Lake Bangweulu and its swamps into which flows the Chambeshi River, the source of the Congo. There is no single clear channel connecting the two rivers and the lake, but a mass of shifting channels, lagoons and swamps, as the explorer David Livingstone found to his cost. (He died exploring the area, and one of his last acts was to question Chief Chitambo about the course of the Luapula.)〔Blaikie, William Garden (1880): ''The Personal Life Of David Livingstone''. (Project Gutenberg Ebook #13262 ), release date: August 23, 2004.〕〔David Livingstone and Horace Waller (ed.): ''The Last Journals of David Livingstone in Central Africa from 1865 to his Death''. Two volumes, John Murray, 1874.〕 The channel boldly marked as the 'Luapula' and confidently shown on many maps flowing south out of Lake Bangweulu at 11°25'S 29°49'E can be seen on satellite images such as Google Earth to actually peter out into green vegetation around 11°46'S 29°48'E.〔(Google Earth ) accessed 2007.〕
Below the Bangweulu swamps and floodplain the Luapula flows steadily in an arc south-west turning north-west then north, with some rapids and well-known set of cataracts, Mambilima Falls near the main road.〔 A far less well-known site is Tangwa, about 40 km south where the river has eroded a gap through rocky hills carving huge caves, arches, and potholes, and leaving giant boulders, including two balancing rocks called 'God's Corn Bin'.〔(NRZAM website: William Lammond: "The Luapula Valley" ), in ''The Northern Rhodesia Journal'', Vol 2 No 5 pp50−55 (1954). Accessed 24 February 2007.〕
:''For aspects of wildlife and vegetation at the source of the Luapula, see Lake Bangweulu and Bangweulu Wetlands ecosystem.''
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