Mount Bisoke
Mount Bisoke is an active volcano in the Virunga Mountains of the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. It straddles the border of Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the summit is located in Rwanda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nickolayvladim, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 2,711 metres
- Description: a volcano located on the border between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda
- Also known as: “Mount Visoke”, “Volcan Bishoke”, and “Volcan Bisoke”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Karisoke Research Center.
Karisoke Research Center
Nature reserve
The Karisoke Research Center is a research institute in Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park. It was founded by Dian Fossey on 24 September 1967 to study endangered mountain gorillas.
Mount Bisoke
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.4581° or 1° 27′ 29″ southLongitude
29.48532° or 29° 29′ 7″ eastElevation
2,711 metres (8,894 feet)Open location code
6GCFGFRP+Q4OpenStreetMap ID
node 310987482OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Bisoke from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Bisoke” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فيسوك”
- Catalan: “Visoke”
- Cebuano: “Volcan Visoke”
- Chinese: “比蘇奇火山”
- Dutch: “Bisoke”
- Dutch: “Mount Bisoke”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل مونت بيسوك”
- Estonian: “Bisoke mägi”
- Estonian: “Bisoke vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Bisoke”
- Estonian: “Visoke mägi”
- Estonian: “Visoke vulkaan”
- Estonian: “Visoke”
- French: “Bisoke”
- French: “Bisoko”
- French: “Kirunga Visoke”
- French: “Mont Bisoke”
- French: “Mont Visoke”
- French: “Visoke”
- French: “Wissoke”
- German: “Bisoke”
- German: “Bisoko”
- German: “Visoke”
- Hebrew: “הר ביסוקה”
- Hungarian: “Bisoke”
- Italian: “Bisoke”
- Italian: “Visoke”
- Japanese: “ビソケ山”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikirunga cya Bisoke”
- Ladin: “Mount Bisoke”
- Lithuanian: “Bisokė”
- Lithuanian: “Visokė”
- Macedonian: “Бисоке”
- Persian: “کوه بیسوکه”
- Romanian: “Muntele Bisoke”
- Russian: “Бисоке”
- Russian: “Високе”
- Slovak: “Visoke”
- Swahili: “Bisoke”
- Swahili: “Visoke”
- Swedish: “Visoke”
- Swedish: “Volcan Visoke”
- Ukrainian: “Бісоке”
- Venetian: “Visoke”
- “Bisoke”
- “Bisoko”
- “Kirunga Visoke”
- “Mont Visoke”
- “Mount Bisoke”
- “Visoke”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Kinigi and Busogo.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Gorilla Graveyard and Dian Fossey Grave.
DR Congo: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Kinshasa, Lubumbashi, Virunga National Park, and Goma.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Mount Bisoke”. Photo: Nickolayvladim, CC BY-SA 3.0.