Mount Muhabura

Mount Muhabura, also known as Mount Muhavura, is an inactive volcano in the Virunga Mountains on the - border. At 4,127 metres, Muhabura is the third highest of the eight major mountains of the mountain range, which is part of the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 4,127 metres
  • Description: mountain on Rwanda–Uganda border
  • Also known as: Mount Muhavura”, “Volcan Muhabura”, and “Volcan Muhavura

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Mount Gahinga.

is a national park in and the nearest town is 1 . It is one of the only four national parks that protect the mountain gorillas.

Volcano
is a dormant/extinct volcano in the Virunga Mountains on the - border. Gahinga lies between Muhabura and , but is the smallest of these three volcanoes.

Mount Muhabura

Latitude
-1.38301° or 1° 22′ 59″ south
Longitude
29.67791° or 29° 40′ 41″ east
Elevation
4,127 metres (13,540 feet)
Open location code
6GCFJM8H+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 309205852
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
49524
Wiki­data ID
Q543030
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Satellite Map

Discover Mount Muhabura from above in high-definition satellite imagery.

In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Muhabura” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: جبل مهابورا
  • Bulgarian: Мухавура
  • Catalan: Muhabura
  • Cebuano: Muhavura
  • Chinese: 穆哈武拉火山
  • Dutch: Mount Muhabura
  • Egyptian Arabic: جبل مهابورا
  • Esperanto: Muhabura
  • Estonian: Muhabura
  • French: Mont Muhabura
  • French: Muhavura
  • German: Muhabura
  • Greek: Μουχαμπούρα
  • Greek: Όρος Μουχαμπούρα
  • Hausa: Dutsen Muhabura
  • Hebrew: הר מוהבורה
  • Hungarian: Muhabura
  • Italian: Muhabura
  • Japanese: ムハブラ山
  • Kinyarwanda: Ikirunga cya Muhabura
  • Ladin: Mount Muhabura
  • Lithuanian: Muhavura
  • Macedonian: Мухабура
  • Persian: کوه محابورا
  • Polish: Muhabura
  • Portuguese: Monte Muhabura
  • Russian: Мухавура
  • Slovak: Muhavura
  • Spanish: Monte Muhabura
  • Swahili: Mlima Muhabura
  • Ukrainian: Мухавура
  • Venetian: Muhabura

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

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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 Muhabura”. Photo: Peace Batuma, CC BY-SA 4.0.