River
Chiluango River
160 km from source to mouth · Angola, Republic of the Congo and DR Congo.
Angola, Republic of the Congo and DR CongoFlows into Atlantic Ocean3rd longest in Angola
In numbers
Length
160km
Average flow
120m³/s
Basin
5,170km²
Drop
336m
from 336 m to 0 m
Countries
3
The journey
From source to mouth
160 km of river and 0 stops on the way: 0 towns and cities on its banks, dams, bridges and the tributaries that feed it.
- 0 kmSourceat 336 m
- 160 kmAtlantic Oceanat 0 m
Water level along the river (RiverATLAS; the height is exaggerated). Towns: GeoNames and Wikidata; bridges, dams and tributaries: Wikidata.
River in western Central Africa
At the mouth it carries 121 m³/s on average: an Olympic pool every 21 seconds. It drops from 336 m to 0 m, 2.1 m per kilometre on average. Its basin covers 5,170 km², about the size of TT. 787,000 people live in it. Highest water: April; lowest: from July to October. No large dam holds it back: it is one of the world's free-flowing rivers.
Where to start
- CacongoLargest city on its banks · 15,000 people
- Cabinda Airport (CAB)Nearest airport with scheduled flights, 40 km from the cityCar hire at LAD airport (Luanda)Discover Cars · Affiliate link↗
- On the water1 ferry piers, marinas, boat rentals and boat ramps along the river (OpenStreetMap)
- From June to SeptemberThe best months to visit
Chiluango River, month by month
Highest water: April
Lowest water: from July to October. Best months to visit: from June to September.
From about 28 m³/s in the lowest month to 290 m³/s in the highest. An estimate: the monthly flow is modelled from the lowest and highest months of WaterGAP (RiverATLAS, 1971–2000) and the rain and snow along the river (WorldClim). Dams change the real rhythm. The chip is the average air temperature; below it, the month's rain.
Plan the trip
Plan the trip: boat trips, a bed by the river, a car
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The basin
Chiluango River: the basin in numbers
13,053 km² of land send their water to this river. This is what lives on it.
- 787,000people live in the basin
- 60/km²people per km²
- 251maverage altitude of the basin
- 1,179mmof rain a year (basin average)
- 24.4°Caverage air temperature
What covers the basin
- 85% Forest
- 1% Cropland
- 5% Pasture
- 1% Towns and cities
RiverATLAS (HydroATLAS v1.0, CC BY 4.0): land cover, people, protected areas, glaciers and dams over the whole basin upstream of the mouth.
Along the river
Chiluango River: what you find on the way
- 1Boat ramps
From OpenStreetMap, within 1.9 km of the river. Not mapped is not the same as not there.
Cross-checked with our atlases
Chiluango River in our other atlases
What our sister atlases know about the waterfalls on this river, the lakes it flows through, the beaches at its mouth, the mountains where it rises and the islands off its mouth.
15mountains at the sourcePeakyas
Mountains at the source (15)
Within 15 km of the source, by Peakyas
- Kidimimba12 km away
- Kifousa8.6 km away
- Kingon14 km away
- Eso10 km away
- Ilougoundo11 km away
- Iokoula11 km away
- Mayouka4.5 km away
- Mazila9.5 km away
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From space
The source and the mouth, seen from orbit
Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2016), CC BY 4.0. The glowing line is the river as drawn by RiverATLAS.
Tributaries
Where it flows, and what flows into it
Tributaries (1)
Also: Lukula
GabonWhere these numbers come from
| Name, length, places | Wikidata (Q2978967) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Course, profile, basin | RiverATLAS v1.0 (HydroATLAS, Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0 — followed from the source to the mouth given by Wikidata |
| Flow | WaterGAP (RiverATLAS), 1971–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Climate along the river | WorldClim (RiverATLAS), 1970–2000 · CC BY 4.0 |
| Towns, bridges, dams | Wikidata · CC0; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0 |
| Along the river | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Our other atlases | Peakyas — Wikidata · CC0; © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL; GeoNames · CC BY 4.0; HydroLAKES · CC BY 4.0; NOAA OISST |
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