Kwenge River

4.840404°S 18.721991°E / -4.840404; 18.721991

The Kwenge River in the Kasai catchment (center left)

The Kwenge River (French: Rivière Kwenge) is a stream in the Bandundu Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The river begins in Angola and then for about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) it forms a short part of the Angola–DRC border.[1] It flows north from the Angola border through the Kwango and Kwilu districts, joining the Kwilu River below Kikwit.[2] Lusanga, formerly Leverville, is at the confluence of the Kwenge and Kwilu rivers.[3]

The land between the Kwilu and the Kwenge was first occupied be the Pende people.[4] The Suku people, who came to the region from the Kwango River valley in the 1800s, live in the savanna region between the upper Bakali and Kwenge rivers.[5] The lowest part of the river valley contains strips of periodically or permanently flooded land.[6]

References
  1. "Kwenge". GoogleMaps. Retrieved 29 September 2020.
  2. Blaes, X. (October 2008). "Découpage administratif de la République Démocratique du Congo" (PDF). UNOCHA and PNUD. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-08-18.
  3. C.J. Warrington (May 1972). "M'Bwa na Basenji" (PDF). The Basenji. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  4. "Tribal Treasures". Zemanek-Münster. August 25, 2011. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012. Retrieved 2012-02-02.
  5. Robert F. Gray, P. H. Gulliver (2004). The family estate in Africa: studies in the role of property in family structure and lineage continuity. Routledge. p. 83. ISBN 0-415-32985-X.
  6. R. H. Hughes; J. S. Hughes (1992). A directory of African wetlands. IUCN. p. 531. ISBN 2-88032-949-3.


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