where does the zambezi river begin?
Mwinilunga
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 The Great Rift Valley runs through the country from north to south , and to the east of the valley lies Lake Malawi ( also called Lake Nyasa ) , making up over three @-@ quarters of Malawi 's eastern boundary . Lake Malawi is sometimes called the Calendar Lake as it is about 365 miles ( 587 km ) long and 52 miles ( 84 km ) wide . The Shire River flows from the south end of the lake and joins the Zambezi River 250 miles ( 400 km ) farther south in Mozambique . The surface of Lake Malawi is located at 1 @,@ 500 feet ( 457 m ) above sea level , with a maximum depth of 2 @,@ 300 feet ( 701 m ) , which means the lake bottom is over 700 feet ( 213 m ) below sea level at some points . 

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 According to Mawema , black nationalists held a meeting in 1960 to choose an alternative name for the country , and names including Machobana and Monomotapa were proposed before his suggestion , Zimbabwe , prevailed . A further alternative , put forward by nationalists in Matabeleland , had been " Matopos " , referring to the Matopos Hills to the south of Bulawayo . 

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 The watershed between the major Congo and Nile drainage basins runs from north to south through Rwanda , with around 80 % of the country 's area draining into the Nile and 20 % into the Congo via the Rusizi River and Lake Tanganyika . The country 's longest river is the Nyabarongo , which rises in the south @-@ west , flows north , east , and southeast before merging with the Ruvubu to form the Kagera ; the Kagera then flows due north along the eastern border with Tanzania . The Nyabarongo @-@ Kagera eventually drains into Lake Victoria , and its source in Nyungwe Forest is a contender for the as @-@ yet undetermined overall source of the Nile . Rwanda has many lakes , the largest being Lake Kivu . This lake occupies the floor of the Albertine Rift along most of the length of Rwanda 's western border , and with a maximum depth of 480 metres ( 1 @,@ 575 ft ) , it is one of the twenty deepest lakes in the world . Other sizeable lakes include Burera , Ruhondo , Muhazi , Rweru , and Ihema , the last being the largest of a string of lakes in the eastern plains of Akagera National Park . 

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 A river of sea water , called the Atlantic North Equatorial Current , flows westward off the coast of Central Africa . When this current interacts with the northeastern coast of South America , the current forks into two branches . One passes into the Caribbean Sea , while a second , the Antilles Current , flows north and east of the West Indies . These two branches rejoin north of the Straits of Florida . 

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 The area of Africa now known as Malawi had a very small population of hunter @-@ gatherers before waves of Bantu @-@ speaking peoples began emigrating from the north around the 10th century . Although most of the Bantu peoples continued south , some remained permanently and founded ethnic groups based on common ancestry . By 1500 AD , the tribes had established the Kingdom of Maravi that reached from north of what is now Nkhotakota to the Zambezi River and from Lake Malawi to the Luangwa River in what is now Zambia . 
