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3.5.6 Implications for water quality and quantity management<br />

None.<br />

3.6 The Luanginga sub-catchment<br />

3.6.1 General description<br />

3.6.1.1 Hydrology<br />

The Luanginga River drains the southeastern portion of the Bié Highlands in central Angola. Flows are<br />

seasonal though there is no information as to the size of the flows.<br />

3.6.1.2 Geology<br />

The sub-catchment is underlain predominantly by sandstones and conglomerates of the middle Zambezi basin;<br />

these are covered by deep Kalahari Sands. Archaean rocks of the Central African Craton underlie the<br />

headwaters of the sub-catchment.<br />

3.6.1.3 Pedology, agriculture and land use<br />

The soils are in two groups: the deeper ferralitic soils of the upper headwaters of the catchment, and Kalahari<br />

Sands over most of the lower reaches of the sub-catchment. The predominance of Kalahari Sands makes the<br />

area generally unsuitable for commercial agriculture, though subsistence agriculture occurs on floodplain levees<br />

along the rivers.<br />

3.6.1.4 Surface water users<br />

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