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Water Body Attractions In Uganda

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Uganda , officially the Republic of Uganda , is a landlocked country in East-Central Africa. The sovereign state bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region. Uganda also lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied but generally a modified equatorial climate. Uganda takes its name from the Buganda kingdom, which encompasses a large portion of the south of the country, inc...
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Water Body Attractions In Uganda

  • 1. Lake Victoria Entebbe
    Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named after Queen Victoria by the explorer John Hanning Speke, the first Briton to document it. Speke accomplished this in 1858, while on an expedition with Richard Francis Burton to locate the source of the Nile River.With a surface area of approximately 68,800 square kilometres , Lake Victoria is Africa's largest lake by area, the world's largest tropical lake, and the world's second largest fresh water lake by surface area after Lake Superior in North America. In terms of volume, Lake Victoria is the world's ninth largest continental lake, containing about 2,750 cubic kilometres of water.Lake Victoria receives its water primarily from direct rainfall and thousands of small streams. The Kagera River is the largest river flowin...
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  • 2. Victoria Nile Jinja
    The White Nile is a river in Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile; the other is the Blue Nile. The name comes from colouring due to clay carried in the water.In the strict meaning, White Nile refers to the river formed at Lake No, at the confluence of the Bahr al Jabal and Bahr el Ghazal Rivers. In the wider sense, White Nile refers to all the stretches of river draining from Lake Victoria through to the merger with the Blue Nile. These higher stretches being named the Victoria Nile , the Albert Nile and then the Mountain Nile or Bahr-al-Jabal . White Nile may sometimes include the headwaters of Lake Victoria, the most remote of which being 2,300 miles from the Blue Nile.The 19th-century search by Europeans for the source of the Nile was mainly focused on the White Nile, whi...
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  • 3. Victoria Nile Jinja
    The White Nile is a river in Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile; the other is the Blue Nile. The name comes from colouring due to clay carried in the water.In the strict meaning, White Nile refers to the river formed at Lake No, at the confluence of the Bahr al Jabal and Bahr el Ghazal Rivers. In the wider sense, White Nile refers to all the stretches of river draining from Lake Victoria through to the merger with the Blue Nile. These higher stretches being named the Victoria Nile , the Albert Nile and then the Mountain Nile or Bahr-al-Jabal . White Nile may sometimes include the headwaters of Lake Victoria, the most remote of which being 2,300 miles from the Blue Nile.The 19th-century search by Europeans for the source of the Nile was mainly focused on the White Nile, whi...
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  • 4. Lake Albert Ntoroko
    Lake George or Lake Dweru is a lake in Uganda. It covers a total surface area of 250 square kilometres and is a part of Africa's Great Lakes system, although not itself considered one of the Great Lakes. Like the other lakes in the region, it was named after a member of the British royal family, in this case Prince George, later to become King George V of the United Kingdom. Lake George drains to the southwest into Lake Edward through the Kazinga Channel. Explorer Henry M. Stanley was the first European to see the lake in 1875, after following the course of the Katonga river from Lake Victoria during his trans-African expedition. Thinking it was part of Lake Albert, he named it Beatrice Gulf. Exploration plans were aborted due to the threat of conflict with the kingdom of Bunyoro. On his s...
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  • 5. Kazinga Channel Queen Elizabeth National Park
    The Kazinga Channel in Uganda is a wide, 32-kilometre long natural channel that links Lake Edward and Lake George, and a dominant feature of Queen Elizabeth National Park. The channel attracts a varied range of animals and birds, with one of the world's largest concentration of hippos and numerous Nile crocodiles. Lake George is a small lake with an average depth of only 2.4 metres and which is fed by streams from the Rwenzori mountains. Its outflow is through the Kazinga Channel which drains into Lake Edward, water levels fluctuating very little. In 2005, large numbers of hippos were killed in the channel as a result of an anthrax outbreak, which occurs when animals eat remnants of vegetation in the driest months, absorbing bacterial spores that can live for decades in dry soil. The chann...
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  • 7. Lake Mutanda Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
    Lake Mutanda is a small freshwater lake in Uganda.
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