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Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika. [4] In 1894, German officer and colonial ruler Gustav Adolf von Götzen was the first recorded European to visit the lake. Kivu lake shoreline at Gisenyi, Rwanda. In the past, Lake Kivu drained toward the north, contributing to the White Nile.
Kivu is also the name for the entire region surrounding Lake Kivu, including the portions in Rwanda which contain the vast majority of the lake area's population (the contiguous towns of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda, with a combined population approaching 1,000,000, form the largest urbanised area in the Lake Kivu area). [3]
The city features a resort on the shores of Lake Kivu, with several hotels and three sandy beaches. The area is also known for water sports . The northern shore of the lake on which Goma and Gisenyi lie is a flat plain featuring lava formations from the eruptions of nearby Mount Nyiragongo .
Nearly two million people, including the population of Goma, live in the vicinity of Lake Kivu and could be in danger from a limnic eruption triggered by one of the nearby volcanoes and the earthquakes associated with them. [146] The CO 2-rich gas location, known locally as mazuku has recently caused the death of people and animals. [147] [148]
The city lies on the eastern shores of Lake Kivu, between Gisenyi and Cyangugu, approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi), by road, west of Kigali, the capital and largest city in the country. [2] The geographical coordinates of the town are: 2°03'42.0"S, 29°20'54.0"E (Latitude:-2.061672; Longitude:29.348344).
The district lies on the shores of Lake Kivu, around the city of Gisenyi, and just across the border from the Congolese city of Goma.. It is bordered in the east by Nyabihu District, west and north by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and south by Rutsiro district and is 154.7 km from the Rwandan capital Kigali.
Sake is a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the eastern province of North Kivu.It is located at the northwestern extremity of Lake Kivu, 25 km (15 mi) west-northwest of Goma on National Road No. 2, [1] at the edge of the volcanic lava plains in the bottom of the Western Rift Valley, at an elevation of about 1500 m.
Nyamasheke's Lake Kivu is the site of the first German colonial military post, founded in 1898 by Kapitan Berthe, a German Army officer. Shangi sector was chosen by the Germans for its strategic position on Lake Kivu border with the Congo. The site is also known for having served for the first Rwandan religious mass in 1899.