Kawambwa

Kawambwa is a town in Luapula Province in northern Zambia, set on the edge of the northern plateau above the Luapula valley at an altitude of about 1300 metres. British colonial authorities chose it as the seat of an administrative district because they preferred the plateau climate to the hotter valley where most of the district's people live, and it remains a district seat today. The town lies at the junction of tarred roads to Nchelenge, Mporokoso, Mushota and Mansa, and to Mbereshi, which connects to the main highway of the province. The largest tea plantation in Zambia is 27 kilometres away on the Mporokoso road, and the Lumangwe, Kabwelume and Ntumbachushi waterfalls lie within reach. In 1998 United Nations agencies set up a camp at Kala, 24 kilometres to the north, for refugees from the war in eastern Congo.