Kwilu River


The Kwilu River is a major river that originates in Angola and flows north through Bandundu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the city of Bandundu, where it joins the Kwango River just before this stream enters the Kasai River. In the DRC the river flows past the towns of Gungu, Kikwit, Bulungu, Bagata, Rutherfordia and Bandundu.
Lusanga, formerly Leverville, lies at the location where the Kwenge River joins the Kwilu, between Kikwit and Bulungu.

Characteristics

It is a meandering river. Near its mouth it is 950 meter wide. The bed material is sand.
The river is about long. In the wet season the flooded area covers.
The headwaters of the river rise at elevations between and in the Angolan highlands. They drop steeply to the flat central Congo Basin at between and above sea level. A 2011 survey found 113 species of fish in 21 families and eight orders.

Same name rivers in South west DRC and north west Angola

Just south of the city of Kwilu Ngongo two other rivers name Kwilu are merging together at
coordinate point 5°34'52"S 14°37'43"E