The Kwenge River ( French: ''Rivière Kwenge'') is a stream in the

Bandundu Province Bandundu is one of eleven former provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It bordered the provinces of Kinshasa and Bas-Congo to the west, Équateur (former province), Équateur to the north, and Kasai-Occidental to the east. The provi ...

of the

Democratic Republic of the 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 ...

. The river begins in

Angola Angola, officially the Republic of Angola, is a country on the west-Central Africa, central coast of Southern Africa. It is the second-largest Portuguese-speaking world, Portuguese-speaking (Lusophone) country in both total area and List of c ...

and then for about it forms a short part of the Angola–DRC border. It flows north from the Angola border through the

Kwango Kwango is a province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is one of the 21 provinces created in the 2015 repartitioning. Kwango, Kwilu, and Mai-Ndombe provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Bandundu province. K ...

and Kwilu districts, joining the

Kwilu River The Kwilu River ( Portuguese: ''Rio Cuílo''; French: ''Rivière Kwilu''; Dutch: ''Kwilu Rivier'') is a major river in both Lunda Norte Province and Lunda Sul Province in Angola as well as Kwilu Province, formerly known as Bandundu province, ...

below Kikwit. Lusanga, formerly Leverville, is at the confluence of the Kwenge and Kwilu rivers. The land between the Kwilu and the Kwenge was first occupied be the Pende people. The Suku people, who came to the region from the Kwango River valley in the 1800s, live in the savanna region between the upper Bakali and Kwenge rivers. The lowest part of the river valley contains strips of periodically or permanently flooded land.

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Rivers of the Democratic Republic of the Congo Rivers of Angola International rivers of Africa Angola–Democratic Republic of the Congo border Border rivers {{DRCongo-river-stub