The Cuvo is a river in central Angola. The river mouth is at the Atlantic Ocean at Benguela Bay,The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: South and east Africa, Elisée Reclus, Ernest George Ravenstein, Augustus Henry Keane, D. Appleton, 1890, p. 8 in Cuanza Sul Province. Cuvo is its name in its upper reaches; its lower course is called the Keve or Queve.Angola Tourism , Angola Embassy The river is navigable upstream to Binga Falls near Gabela.

Its main tributaries include the Cussoi River.

The river may be the southern extent of the range of the African manatee.A Directory of African Wetlands, R. H. Hughes, J. S. Hughes, G. M. Bernacsek, IUCN, 1992 The river wetland floodplain and Kumbira Forest is part of an Important Bird Area with several rare species.A brief survey of the birds in Kumbira Forest, Gabela, Angola, Çagan H Sekercioglu and Adam Riley, Ostrich 2005, ISSN 0030-6525, 76(3&4): 111–117

The river mouth has a mangrove stand.5.1 Angola , Ramsar Sites Information Service

See also List of rivers of Angola

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