Mount Sabyinyo
Mount Sabyinyo is an extinct volcano in eastern Africa in the Virunga Mountains. Mount Sabyinyo is the oldest volcano of the range. It is north-east of Lake Kivu, one of the African Great Lakes, and west of Lake Bunyonyi in Uganda.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Andrew Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,634 metres
- Description: mountain in eastern Africa
- Also known as: “Mount Sabinio”, “Mount Sabinyo”, “Sabino”, “Sabyinyo”, “Sabynio”, “Volcan Sabinyo”, and “Volcan Sabyinyo”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bunagana.
Bunagana
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Bunagana is at the far western edge of the Kivu region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just over the border from a tranquil and hard-working region of Uganda. As of October 2022, it was under the control of the March 23 Movement rebel militia.
Mount Sabyinyo
- Categories: mountain, extinct volcano, and landform
- Location: DR Congo, Central Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-1.38964° or 1° 23′ 23″ southLongitude
29.59131° or 29° 35′ 29″ eastElevation
3,634 metres (11,923 feet)Open location code
6GCFJH6R+4GOpenStreetMap ID
node 309205255OpenStreetMap feature
natural=volcano
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Satellite Map
Discover Mount Sabyinyo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Sabyinyo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “جبل سايبنو”
- Catalan: “Sabyinyo”
- Cebuano: “Sabinio”
- Chinese: “薩比尼奧火山”
- Croatian: “Sabyinyo”
- Czech: “Mount Sabyinyo”
- Dutch: “Mount Sabyinyo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سايبنو”
- Esperanto: “Sabyinyo”
- Estonian: “Sabyinyo”
- Finnish: “Sabyinyo”
- French: “Mont Sabyinyo”
- French: “Sabyinyo”
- German: “Sabinyo”
- German: “Sabyinyo”
- Hausa: “Dutsen Sabyinyo”
- Hebrew: “הר סבייניו”
- Hebrew: “הר סביניו”
- Hungarian: “Sabyinyo”
- Indonesian: “Gunung Sabyinyo”
- Italian: “Sabyinyo”
- Japanese: “サビニョ山”
- Kinyarwanda: “Ikirunga cya Sabyinyo”
- Ladin: “Mount Sabyinyo”
- Lithuanian: “Sabinijas”
- Macedonian: “Сабињо”
- Polish: “Mount Sabyinyo”
- Portuguese: “Monte Sabyinyo”
- Spanish: “Monte Sabyinyo”
- Spanish: “Sabinio”
- Spanish: “Sabinyo”
- Spanish: “Sabyinyo”
- Swahili: “Sabyinyo”
- Swedish: “Sabinio”
- Swedish: “Sabyinyo”
- Venetian: “Sabyinyo”
- “Sabyinyo”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as RDB Briefing Point and Nyagakenke.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Mount Sabyinyo 3rd Peak and Mount Sabyinyo 2nd Peak.
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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 Sabyinyo”. Photo: Andrew Moore, CC BY-SA 2.0.