Central African threshold

The Central African Sill, up to 4507 m high, is located in the center of East Africa along the East African Rift Valley , part of the Great Rift Valley . It is one of the five great African thresholds .

location

There, the extending threshold , which directly to the West side of the above-mentioned trench is adjacent, in the North-South direction from the south of the Sudan over parts of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) to North Zambia .

geography

As an elongated, narrow high mountain range, the Central African Sill represents the south-eastern continuation of the north equatorial sill and the north-eastern continuation of the Lunda sill. Between the first and last mentioned sill is the Mitumba Mountains , which are often referred to as part of one or the other sill . In the north, the high mountain sill passes over the valley of the Nile into the large flood basin of the swampy Sudd . Along its entire length, the Central African Sill drops abruptly at its eastern roof into the western part of the East African Rift. In the area of ​​the threshold there are a number of elongated lakes in this rift zone, such as Lake Albert , Lake Eduard , Lake Kiwu and Lake Tanganyika , which reaches a depth of up to 1470 m. In the south, the threshold falls into the basin of the Bangweulus swamps . The large Congo Basin adjoins almost exclusively in the west .

National nature

The north end and the south end of the Central African Sill are dominated by the wet savannah and the dry savannah, the entire central part by the extensive tropical rainforest . Numerous streams and smaller rivers, which have often cut deeply into the landscape, flow almost exclusively to the west from the threshold.

Mountains, rivers, countries and places

Seen from north to south, these mountains, rivers, countries and places lie on and on the Central African threshold.

Mountains and mountains

• Kinyeti (also called Kinyali ) (3,187 m)
• Virunga volcanoes (4,507 m) - DR Congo
• Marungu Mountains (2,456 m) - DR Congo

Biggest rivers

• Uelle
• Aruwimi
• Lindi
• Maiko
• Lowa
• Ulindi
• Elila
• Luama
• Lukuga
• Chambeshi - Luapula - Luvua

countries

• South Sudan (Autonomous Region of Sudan until 2011 )
• Uganda
• Democratic Republic of Congo
• Zambia

places

Mainly smaller cities are located on the elongated Central African threshold:

• Juba , South Sudan (roughly represents the northern end of the threshold)
• Oischa , Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Goma , Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Bukavu , Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Kalemie , Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Mbala , Zambia (roughly the southern end of the threshold)