Cuanza

or Kwan·za

[ kwahn-zuh ]

noun

1. a river in central Angola, flowing NW and W to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.

Example Sentences

The Mangais golf resort is also in the city’s south, next to the Cuanza river, and is where rich locals and foreign businessmen spend their weekends.

From The Guardian

By the late fall, the remote Cuanza basin had become the site of a rush.

From New York Times

Circumstances looked particularly prospective to a geophysicist named Jim Farnsworth, who works for Cobalt International Energy, a company that held a group of leases 50 miles from the mouth of Angola’s Cuanza River basin.

From New York Times

The industry had been over this territory a decade earlier; a few scattered wells were drilled into the Cuanza basin, and then, having found little oil, the companies plugged them.

From New York Times

About three hours after leaving Cavúa were spent upon this high, dry, and healthy desert, when suddenly we sighted the long reaches of the Cuanza River, sharply contrasting, like the Nile, with the tawny yellow grounds about its valley.

From Project Gutenberg