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The Lunsemfwa River is a tributary of the Luangwa River in Zambia and part of the Zambezi River basin. It is a popular river for fishing, containing large populations of tigerfish and bream.
It rises on the south-central African plateau at an elevation of about to the north of Mkushi and south of the border of Congo Pedicle, and flows south. It is used to generate hydroelectric power for the Kabwe mines through the Mita Hills Dam, built in the 1950s with a reservoir about long by wide, and another power station at Lunsemfwa Falls.
About below the dam it enters a remote and inaccessible Canyon which it has cut back into the plateau from the edge of the Luangwa Rift Valley into which it flows. Known as the Lunsemfwa Wonder Gorge it is long, up to deep and about wide at the top.
A viewpoint called Bell Point overlooks the confluence of the Lunsemfwa and its tributary the Mkushi River, about along the gorge, and can be reached on a dirt track.
The Lunsemfwa enters the Luangwa River rift valley about from its western end, where the valley is about wide. It flows to the middle of the valley and turns east as a meandering river with oxbow lakes and a floodplain wide. About further on it merges with the Lukusashi coming from the north-east, and the combined river turns south towards the Luangwa River.
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