Lumangwe Falls

[5] At the river's height at the end of the rainy season in April / May, spray from the waterfall may be carried 100 m into the air and the roaring sound in the gorge below seems to shake the ground.

[citation needed] Lumangwe Falls are reached via a 10 km earth road which turns west from the Kawambwa-Mporokoso gravel road, 2.5 km north-east of the Kalungwishi bridge at Chipempe, which replaced the pontoon (Kalungwishi Ferry) in 2004.

The falls can be viewed from the bank of the river at the top and from a cliff almost opposite the drop.

A council planning officer reported to the Zambia Daily Mail that this was because the area was previously sacred to chiefs in the district who would pay homage to their ancestors, and the area was avoided by the common people.

Slightly downstream from Lumangwe Falls is the only known location of the flower Zygotritonia atropurpurea, identified by Peter Goldblatt et al. in 2019.