Virunga Mountains
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Key facts
- Peak
- Mount Karisimbi
- Elevation
- 4,507 m (14,787 ft)
- Length
- 80 km (50 mi)
- Countries
- Democratic Republic of the Congo Rwanda Uganda
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Encyclopedic overview
Mount Nyiragongo Gahinga (left) and Muhabura (right) Muhabura, Gahinga, Karisimbi, Sabyinyo and Mikeno
The Virunga Mountains (also known as Mufumbiro) are a chain of volcanoes in East Africa, in the area where Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and Uganda meet. The mountain range is a branch of the Albertine Rift Mountains, which border the western branch of the East African Rift. They are located between Lake Edward and Lake Kivu. The name "Virunga" is an English version of the Kinyarwanda word ibirunga, which means "volcanoes".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Virunga Mountains” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.