Ruwenzori mountains

Animals Elephants Source of the Nile Jinja Murchison Falls Mutesa's Village QE  II Park Ruwenzori mountains

Ruwenzori Mountains

 

Ruwenzori Range, mountain range in central Africa, located alongside the Great Rift Valley, on the Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC, formerly Zaire) border, between Lake Albert and Lake Edward. 

 

as seen from Queen Elizabeth National Park

The Ruwenzori Range was visited in 1889 by an expedition that was led by the British-American explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, and the major peaks were explored and climbed in 1906 by the expedition of the Italian Luigi Amedeo, duke of Abruzzi. Several peaks rise above 4877 m (16,000 ft); the highest peak is Margherita Peak at 5109 m (16,763 ft).

 

Cape Buffalo as guards

The waters from the Ruwenzori mountains feed the Nile.  Some flow South through Lake Edward and Lake George to Lake Victoria and to the Nile.  Some flow North to Lake Albert and to the Nile.  It is in these mountains that the waters of the Nile start.

 

the channel at Lake George
(comes from Lake Edward)

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These highlands are some of the most productive parts of Uganda

 

rich soil

 

cattle and tea

 

drying grain

 

selling tomatoes

 

the people are largely Muslim

 

and the greatest challenge is pure water

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Banana growing engages many people

 

some brought from the fields on the heads

 

some by bicycle

 

assembled by middle men

 

until large trucks carry them to market

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Animals Elephants Source of the Nile Jinja Murchison Falls Mutesa's Village QE  II Park Ruwenzori mountains

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