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The Ruvubu River (also spelt Rurubu and Ruvuvu) is a river in central Africa whose waters gather from the most distant, southern portion of the Nile basin. With a total length of 416 km (258 mi) and has a drainage basin of 14,000 km 2 (5,400 sq mi).
The Ndurumu River rises in the north of Karuzi Province and flows south past Buhiga and Karuzi, then south-southwest parallel to the RN 12 highway down to the border with Gitega Province, where it joins the Ruvubu River. [1] It is one of the main tributaries of the Ruvubu. [2]
The Nyabaha River is one of the main tributaries of the Rurubu River. [1] It forms in Ruyigi Province where Nyakijanda River from the south joins the Sanzu River from the east. [2] [3] It flows in a northwest direction along the boundary between Gitega Province to the west and Ruyigi Province to the east to join the Ruvubu River. [4]
The Kagera and Ruvubu rivers, part of the upper Nile Enlargeable, detailed map of Rwanda. The watershed between the major Congo and Nile drainage basins runs from north to south through Rwanda, with around 80 percent of the country's area draining into the Nile and 20 percent into the Congo via the Rusizi River. [7]
The Nyabarongo River empties both into Lake Rweru and the Kagera (or Akagera) river in a small but complicated delta. The Kagera river outflows from Lake Rweru, a mere 1 km from the Nyabarongo delta. Almost all the branches of the Nyabarongo delta empty in the lake, however, one branch of the delta empties directly in the just formed Kagera river.
Ruvubu National Park is a national park in Burundi covering 508 km 2 (196 sq mi) that was established in 1980. [1] Its borders fall within the provinces of Karuzi , Muyinga , Cankuzo and Ruyigi . The park touches neighboring Tanzania to the south, the valley of the Ruvubu River whose landscape dominates this area.
The Luvironza River is the source of the Nile in the sense that it is in the Nile basin, and the distance by river from its headwater to the mouth of the Nile is 6,671 kilometres (4,145 mi), longer than the distance from any other headwater. [4] [a] It is a tributary of the Ruvubu River, a tributary of the Kagera River, which flows in Lake ...
The section of river named Kagera begins in Burundi, flowing out from Lake Rweru. From the lake, it flows east along the Rwanda-Burundi and Rwanda-Tanzania borders to a confluence with the Ruvubu River. The waters of the Kagera are thus provided by two major tributaries, the Nyabarongo of Rwanda, which feeds Lake Rweru, and the Ruvubu of ...