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Lake Kivu
Sign in to savemeromictic lake in the East African Rift valley
Lake Kivu is a large lake located in the East African Rift valley, situated on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. It is a meromictic lake, meaning its water layers do not mix completely, which gives it unique geological and chemical properties that scientists find significant for understanding lake ecosystems.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lake
- Part of
- African Great Lakes
- Country
- Rwanda
- Continent
- Africa
- Area
- 2700
- Elevation
- 1463
- Image
- LakeKivu satellite.jpg
- Width
- 48
- Length
- 89
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- Commons category
- Lake Kivu
- topic's main category
- Category:Lake Kivu
- outflows
- Ruzizi River
- basin country
- Rwanda
- vertical depth
- 485
- volume as quantity
- 500000
- watershed area
- 7000
- native label
- Lake Kivu
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Encyclopedic overview
Lake Kivu is one of the African Great Lakes. It lies on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, and is in the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika. 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
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