Chilwe

Chilwe lies in the upper Chambeshi country of northeastern Zambia, where wooded highlands give way to a maze of river channels and marshes. The Chambeshi rises in mountains near Lake Tanganyika and flows toward the Bangweulu wetlands. At the end of the rains its flood replenishes the swamps and spreads over the adjoining grasslands; the water eventually leaves the wetlands as the Luapula River.