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Lualaba (луалаба, rivers_lake_centerlines:43)
The Lualaba (луалаба) is the headstream and upper course of the Congo River in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, named the Congo at Kisangani.
Lukeni
Lukeni (Lukenie, Lukenye), a 1,225 km river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, rising in Sankuru province at about 570 m and joining the Fimi near Kutu; eighth longest DRC river, navigable to Kole.
Lungwebungu
The Lungwebungu (Portuguese: Lungué-Bungo) is the longest tributary of the upper Zambezi, rising in central Angola and flowing 1,032 km southeast to join the Zambezi at Lukulu, Zambia.
Lúrio
Lúrio (Rio Lúrio, Lurio River), a roughly 500–593 km river in northern Mozambique draining Niassa, Cabo Delgado, Nampula, and Zambézia; its ~61,000 km² basin is the largest entirely within Mozambique, emptying into Baía do Lúrio.
Madagascar Eastern Lowlands
Madagascar Eastern Lowlands, FEOW ecoregion 583, a narrow coastal strip of tropical and subtropical coastal rivers draining to the Indian Ocean, with 69 native fish species, Bedotia endemics, Astacoides crayfish, and brackish lagoons.
Malebo Pool
Malebo Pool (formerly Stanley Pool) is a 35-km-long, lake-like widening of the Congo River between the DRC and Republic of the Congo, with Kinshasa and Brazzaville on opposite shores, formed by a rock-sill barrier above the lower Congo rapids.
Mbomou
Mbomou (Bomu) River, Central African river rising on the Sudan–CAR frontier, flowing west along the DRC border; joins the Uele to form the Ubangi, a major Congo tributary.
Middle Zambezi - Luangwa
The Middle Zambezi - Luangwa is a freshwater ecoregion in Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique, named for the dam-regulated middle Zambezi and the unregulated Luangwa River, stretching from Victoria Falls to the Cahora Bassa Gorge.
Molopo
Molopo River, ephemeral southern Kalahari river rising near Mafikeng, South Africa; forms Botswana-South Africa border, joins Nossob, blocked by dunes from reaching the Orange River; basin 151,000 km2.
Niger River
The Niger River is a major West African river, about 4,180 km long, rising in Guinea and flowing through Mali, Niger, and Nigeria into the Gulf of Guinea.
Northern Upper Guinea
Northern Upper Guinea (FEOW ecoregion 511) is a West African freshwater ecoregion of short Atlantic coastal rivers in Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Sierra Leone, and Liberia, rated Continentally Outstanding for its highly endemic fish, crab, and mollusk fauna.
Ogooué
The Ogooué (Ogowe) is Gabon's principal river, rising in the Republic of the Congo and flowing about 920–1,200 km to the Atlantic. Second-largest Central African river by discharge (~4,750 m³/s), bimodal floods, largely undammed, 308 fish species.
Okavango (river, Botswana)
The Okavango River, called the Cubango in Angola, is a southwestern African river about 1,600 km long that rises on the Bie Plateau and ends in Botswana's inland Okavango Delta.
Orange River
The Orange River (Senqu in Lesotho) rises in Lesotho's Maluti Mountains, flows through South Africa along the Namibia border to the Atlantic, shared by four states and managed by ORASECOM since 2000.
Oti
The Oti River, called the Pendjari in Benin, is a West African river that rises in the Atakora Mountains and flows through Togo and Ghana into the Volta, its largest tributary.
Pangani
Pangani: river, basin, and freshwater ecoregion (FEOW 568) in northeastern Tanzania and Kenya, rising on Kilimanjaro and Meru, flowing 500 km to the Indian Ocean; noted for endemic fish, hydropower, and severe water stress.
Rio Pongo
Rio Pongo: river and estuarine Ramsar Site no. 574 in Boké/Boffa, western Guinea, designated 18 November 1992, 600,571 ha of pristine mangrove and mudflats, home to waterbirds and the African manatee.
Ruvuma
Ruvuma (Rovuma, Rio Rovuma) is a perennial East African river forming the Tanzania–Mozambique border, about 800 km long, draining a 155,500 km² basin shared with Malawi into the Indian Ocean at Mnazi Bay; a tri-national basin commission agreement was signed in 2026.
Sankuru (landform)
Sankuru River (Lubilash, Lubilanji), a 1,210 km right-bank tributary of the Kasai River in DR Congo, rising near Kamina, flowing north then west, with 2,500 m³/s average flow and navigable routes to Lusambo.
Sassandra
Sassandra, a major river of western Côte d'Ivoire flowing 650 km (or 442 km per one study) to the Gulf of Guinea, with the Buyo (1980) and Soubré (2017) dams and the town of Sassandra at its mouth.
Save
Save (Sabi) River: 715 km river rising south of Harare, Zimbabwe, flowing 315 km through Mozambique to the Indian Ocean; basin ~88,395-102,000 km², Lundi tributary, 2023 transboundary water agreement.
Senegal River
The Senegal River (fleuve Sénégal) is a 1,790 km West African river rising in Guinea and flowing to the Atlantic at Saint-Louis; its basin is managed by the 1972 OMVS, whose Diama and Manantali dams supply irrigation, hydropower, and flood control.
Shebelle (river, Somalia)
Shebelle River (Webi Shabeelle), longest river in eastern Ethiopia at over 1,000 km, rises in the Ethiopian highlands, flows into Somalia toward the Arabian Sea, over 90% of discharge from highland runoff, often dries in lower reaches.
Sokoto (landform)
Sokoto (landform): the Sokoto River, a left-bank tributary of the Niger in semi-arid northwestern Nigeria, and the Sokoto Plains; 193,000 km2 Sokoto-Rima basin, 700 to 900 mm rain, Bakolori and Goronyo dams, shrinking floodplain.
Southern Upper Guinea
Southern Upper Guinea (FEOW ecoregion 512) is a West African freshwater ecoregion covering nearly all of Liberia, southern Guinea, and western Côte d'Ivoire, defined by the short Mano, Lofa, St. Paul, St. John, Cestos, and Cavally river basins with about one-fifth of 151 fish species endemic.
Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages
Tana, Athi & Coastal Drainages (FEOW ecoregion 567) is a tropical coastal-river freshwater ecoregion in Kenya and northern Tanzania, covering the Tana and Athi/Galana-Sabaki basins plus smaller Indian Ocean coastal rivers, with a depauperate fish fauna, rich bird and reptile life, and the Tana Delta Ramsar site.
Tinkisso
The Tinkisso is a river in Guinea, West Africa, rising in the highlands near Dabola and Dinguiraye and joining the Niger River near Siguiri.
Uele (landform)
Uele (Uellé, Uélé), river in northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, rising near the Uganda border at about 1,620 m and flowing about 1,100–1,210 km west to join the Bomu at Yakoma and form the Ubangi River.
Upper Congo
Upper Congo, FEOW freshwater ecoregion 540, the Lualaba reach of the Congo River in the DRC from the Shaba Plateau to the Upper Congo Rapids, with endemic molluscs and a poorly surveyed endemic fish fauna.
Upper Congo Rapids
Upper Congo Rapids, freshwater ecoregion 539 (FEOW), a stretch of the Lualaba/Congo River between Ubundu and Kisangani, DR Congo, where the river drops 60 m over 100 km through rapids including Boyoma Falls, forming a fish dispersal barrier with a rapids-adapted fauna.