Mporokoso

Mporokoso is a town in the Northern Province of Zambia, on a flat plateau at an elevation of nearly 1500 metres about 75 kilometres south-east of Lake Mweru Wantipa and 100 kilometres south-west of Lake Tanganyika. It is also written and pronounced Mpolokoso. The town is named for Chief Mporokoso, a senior chief of the Bemba people whose palace is at Chishamwamba close by, and it gives its name to Mporokoso District, one of the twelve administrative districts of the province. A camp run by the UNHCR at Mwange, 32 kilometres west, housed refugees from the Second Congo War who were being repatriated. Several waterfalls lie within 50 kilometres, the closest being Kapumo Falls, 7 kilometres south-west of the centre.