Kawambwa is a town in the
Zambia
Zambia, officially the Republic of Zambia, is a landlocked country at the crossroads of Central Africa, Central, Southern Africa, Southern and East Africa. It is typically referred to being in South-Central Africa or Southern Africa. It is bor ...
n province of
Luapula located on the edge of the northern Zambian plateau above the
Luapula valley at an altitude of 1300 m. It was chosen as an administrative district of the same name by the British colonial authorities who preferred the climate of the plateau rather than the hotter valley where most of the district's population live, and it continues as an administrative district today.
Kawambwa sits at the junction of tarred roads to
Nchelenge,
Mporokoso,
Mushota and
Mansa, and
Mbereshi linking with the Zambia Way, the main tarred highway of the Luapula Province through
Mwansabombwe and Mansa.
Zambia's largest tea plantation is situated 27 km from Kawambwa on the Mporokoso road.
A camp for refugees of war in the eastern
DR Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), also known as the DR Congo, Congo-Kinshasa, or simply the Congo (the last ambiguously also referring to the neighbouring Republic of the Congo), is a country in Central Africa. By land area, it is t ...
was established by United Nations agencies at Kala 24 km north of Kawambwa in 1998, with a capacity for 40,000 refugees.
Near to Kawambwa are three of Zambia's waterfalls
Lumangwe Falls, Kabwelume 50 km to the north-east on the
Kalungwishi River and the
Ntumbachushi Falls on the
Ngona River, 16 km west.
Climate
Kawambwa has a
tropical savanna climate
Tropical savanna climate or tropical wet and dry climate is a tropical climate sub-type that corresponds to the Köppen climate classification categories ''Aw'' (for a dry "winter") and ''As'' (for a dry "summer"). The driest month has less than ...
(
Köppen Köppen is a German surname. Notable people with the surname include:
* Bernd Köppen (1951–2014), German pianist and composer
* Carl Köppen (1833-1907), German military advisor in Meiji era Japan
* Edlef Köppen (1893–1939), German author ...
: ''Aw'')
with clear wet and dry seasons.
References
Populated places in Luapula Province
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