Lucala

The Lucala flows through the highlands of northern Angola to join the Kwanza. Between the two rivers lay much of the kingdom of Ndongo, whose rulers were known as ngola. The river figured in the wars that followed Portuguese expansion from the coast. In 1586 an Ndongo force used large canoes to cross the Lucala during a campaign against the Portuguese. Farther downstream, the confluence with the Kwanza became the site of the Portuguese post of Massangano.