Il primo costituisce il confine fra Zambia e Repubblica Democratica del Congo, e scarica nelle "wetland" del Lago Bangweulu, da cui si forma il Luapula. ###>The southernmost headstream of the Congo River rises in Zambia and flows west through its northern area firstly as the Chambeshi and then, after the Bangweulu Swamps as the Luapula, which forms part of the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo.