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Lukanga Swamp
Lukanga Swamp is a major wetland in the Central Province of Zambia, about 50 km west of Kabwe.〔Terracarta/International Travel Maps, Vancouver Canada: "Zambia, 2nd edition", 2000〕 Its permanently swampy area consists of a roughly circular area with a diameter of 40 to 50 km covering 1850 km², plus roughly 250 km² in the mouths of and along rivers discharging into it such as the Lukanga River from the north-east, plus another 500 km² either side of the Kafue River to the west and north-west, making 2600 km² in total.〔(Google Earth ) accessed 2007.〕 It contains many lagoons such as Lake Chiposhye and Lake Suye〔 but few large channels, and its average depth is only 1.5 m.
==River connections and floodplains==
The permanent swamp is surrounded by a seasonally-inundated floodplain, varying from about 5 to 25 km wide in the south and east, up to 40 km in the north, and reaching the Kafue River and its swamps 25 km to the west and north-west. When the Kafue floods it overflows north-west through the normally dry Mwinuna channel and into the lower Lukanga River, while another channel drains out of the swamp back into the Kafue in the south-west.〔 The Kafue meanders through its own swamps which are up to 10 km wide and extend for 90 km along the river. Numerous short rivers and streams flow into the swamp from the south, east and north, of which the Lukanga is the largest. In the rainy season the floodplains are inundated increasing the area of the wetland to 6000 km², reaching a maximum of 8000 km² at the peak flooding of a good rainy season.〔
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