Luvironza (river)
| Luvironza | ||
 The Luvironza in the catchment area of the Kagera (bottom middle) |
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| Data | ||
| location |
 Burundi
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| River system | Nile | |
| Drain over | Ruvuvu → Kagera Nile → Victoria Nile → Albert Nile → Bahr al-Jabal → White Nile → Nile → Mediterranean | |
| source | at Mont Gikizi 3 ° 54 ′ 47 ″ S , 29 ° 50 ′ 22 ″ E |
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| Source height | approx. 2040 m | |
| muzzle | 10 km northeast of Gitega in the Ruvuvu Coordinates: 3 ° 20 '39 " S , 29 ° 59' 35" E 3 ° 20 '39 " S , 29 ° 59' 35" E |
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| Mouth height | approx. 1410 m | |
| Height difference | approx. 630 m | |
| Bottom slope | approx. 5.7 ‰ | |
| length | 110 km | |
| Medium-sized cities | Gitega | |
 Pyramid that stands at the source of the Luvironza |
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The Luvironza (also Ruvironza or Ruvyironza ) is now regarded as the source river of the Nile , as its source is located furthest south of the mouth of the Nile into the Mediterranean .
course
The Luvironza rises on the slopes of the mountain Mont Gikizi (2130 m) in Burundi south of Rutovu as a trickle , which is first called Kasumo , then Gasenyi, Kigira and finally Luvironza. It is about 110 kilometers long and flows ten kilometers northeast of the provincial capital Gitega into the Ruvuvu , a tributary of the Kagera Nile .
discovery
While searching for the sources of the Nile in 1893, the Austrian geographer and cartographer Oskar Baumann (1864–1899) discovered the Luvironza source (“Through Massailand to the Nile source”, 1894), whose geographical location was only discovered in 1937 by Burkhart Waldecker ( 1902–1964) was specified. It is marked by a pyramid-shaped monument erected in 1938.
The memorial plaque on the pyramid bears the following inscription:
Pyrami [DIS]
AD
CAPUT [IN] NILI
UT SIGNUM INCIPIENTIS Fluminis pyramidum
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ERECTA AD MDCCCCXXXVIII
SUB PROTECTIONE PROCONSULIS JUNGERS
ET CUM AUXILIO PATRIS COLLE GERARDINQUE
ET MONTEYNE A DR. BURKHART WALDECKER
IN MEMORIAM OMNIUM QUAERENTIUM CAPUT NILI
ERATOSTHENES ptolemäus
SPEKE STANLEY ET KANDT ALII
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SUNTRACER NOMINA NILI
KASUMO-MUKASENYI-KIGIRA
Ruvyironza River-Ruvubu-Kagera
LAC VICTORIA-VICTORIA NILE
LAC KYOCA-Mwita Nzige (LAC ALBERT)
BAHR EWL GEBEL-KIR-Bahr EL ABIAD
NIL
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CFL GEOMINES-UMHK
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Google Earth
- ↑ Gasumo, la source la plus méridionale du Nile
- ↑ Burundi Tourism