It has its mouth at the confluence with the Litany at Antecume Pata and continues its journey as the Lawa River.

[5] The Malani has its source at Pic Coudreau, a 711 metres (2,333 ft) high inselberg in the Tumuk Humak Mountains near the border with Brazil.

[6] The river first heads south and makes a 180 degree turn around Pic Coudreau and continues its journey northwards through the tropical rainforest.

[9] The Aluku eventually returned to Gaan Day along the Lawa River, and had abandoned the Malani around 1839.

[10] From the 1880s onwards, the indigenous Wayana moved from the Paru River in Brasil northwards along the Malani and Litani.