Luangwa

[ loo-ahng-wah ]

noun

1. a river in E Zambia, flowing SSW to the Zambezi River. 500 miles (805 km) long: forms part of boundary with Mozambique.

Example Sentences

He was on an illegal elephant hunt with a group of men inside North Luangwa National Park in the southern African nation of Zambia.

From New York Times

Bernard Mutondo once made a living hunting elephants in North Luangwa National Park in Zambia, until Delia and Mark Owens arrived.Credit...

From New York Times

“You wouldn’t get far, child. The border patrol watches that part of the river like vultures. Anyhow, the Zambezi speeds up where the Luangwa joins the main channel. If the soldiers didn’t shoot you, the current would send you straight to the bottom.”

From Literature

If the mouth of the Luangwa River was as bad as everyone said, it wouldn’t have survived anyhow.

From Literature

He’d managed to “militarize” the North Luangwa National Park by arming the scouts and “buying their loyalty with weapons, boots and money.”

From Los Angeles Times