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Cuanza

American  
[kwahn-zuh] / ˈkwɑn zə /
Or Kwanza

noun

  1. a river in central Angola, flowing NW and W to the Atlantic Ocean. 500 miles (805 km) long.


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The industry had been over this territory a decade earlier; a few scattered wells were drilled into the Cuanza basin, and then, having found little oil, the companies plugged them.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011

By the late fall, the remote Cuanza basin had become the site of a rush.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011

Circumstances looked particularly prospective to a geophysicist named Jim Farnsworth, who works for Cobalt International Energy, a company that held a group of leases 50 miles from the mouth of Angola’s Cuanza River basin.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2011

The Cuanza at "Sleepers' Bay" has one of the worst shifting bars on the whole coast.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Others suppose that it results from the meeting of the Cuanza and the Bengo streams; but the latter outfall would be carried up coast.

From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

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