Lukenie River

This is not done during the low water season (June–August), however, for fear of stranding for long periods.

During the early Belgian colonial era, the river was sometimes used to transport rubber from posts such as Kole and Lodja down to Lake Leopold II.

[1] Some of the main logging concession areas of Sodefor are on both sides of the Lukenie River, centered on Oshwe.

[2] In September 2010 hundreds of people in Oshwe, a community in Mai-Ndombe Province, demonstrated against SODEFOR.

This article related to a river in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is a stub.

Aerial view of the Lukenie River as it meanders through the Central Congolian lowland forests of the DRC
The Lukenie River in the Kasai catchment (at the top)