Kasumo

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Kasumo

Data
location BurundiBurundi Burundi
River system Nile
Drain over Luvironza  → Ruvuvu  → Kagera Nile  → Victoria Nile  → Albert Nile  → Bahr al-Jabal  → White Nile  → Nile  → Mediterranean
source Burundi, below Mount Kikizi
3 ° 54 '47 "  S , 29 ° 50' 22"  E Coordinates: 3 ° 54 '47 "  S , 29 ° 50' 22"  E
Source height 2440  m

The Kasumo (also: Gasumo) is the southernmost source river of the Nile or the White Nile , the longest river on earth.

location

The Kasumo, which means waterfall or mountain stream, has its source in the Burundi mountains below Mount Kikizi at an altitude of 2,440 m. Its geographical data are 3 ° 54'47 "S and 29 ° 50'22" E.

Mapping

This source, or to be more precise: two “hardly ½ m wide rivulets”, was determined in 1893 by the Austrian Africa explorer Oskar Baumann as the first European during his “Maasai expedition” from a distance of about 1 km “in pure rain canyons”, but not named more precisely or have been mapped. Baumann only speaks of the fact that he reached the sources of the Nile - unlike Henry Morton Stanley in 1874 - and that it is of "minor importance" "which of the two sources is to be designated as Ruvuvu , as the Nile".

It was not until November 12, 1937 that the German-Belgian Africa researcher and ethnologist Burkhart Waldecker succeeded in finding and mapping the southernmost source of the Nile. He built a three-meter-high stone pyramid with a memorial plaque at this source .

The Kasumo goes to the following rivers and lakes on: Mukasenyi → Kigira → Ruvyironza River → Ruvuvu (hippopotamus river) → Kagera River (navigable) → Lake Victoria → Victoria Nile → Lake Kyoga → Kyoga Nile → Albert → Albert Nile → Bahr Al-Jebel → White Nile → Nile → Mediterranean .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5144/
  2. ^ Oskar Baumann: Through the Maasai country to the source of the Nile. Reimer, Berlin 1894.
  3. ↑ Waldecker, Burkhart. A pyramid à la source la plus méridionale du Nil au Burundi. Albert de Vleeschauwer Papers, 336. KADOC Archives, Catholic University; Leuven, 1944.