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Mount Gahinga

Mount Gahinga is a dormant/extinct volcano in the Virunga Mountains on the - border. Gahinga lies between and , but is the smallest of these three volcanoes.
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  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 3,474 metres
  • Description: mountain
  • Also known as: “Gahinga”, “Mahing”, and “Mgahinga”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mgahinga Gorilla National Park and Mount Muhabura.

Photo: Jgdb500, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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
, 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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bunagana.

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
is at the far western edge of the region of the , just over the border from a tranquil and hard-working region of . As of October 2022, it was under the control of the March 23 Movement rebel militia.

Mount Gahinga

Latitude
-1.38642° or 1° 23′ 11″ south
Longitude
29.64515° or 29° 38′ 43″ east
Elevation
3,474 metres (11,398 feet)
Open location code
6GCFJJ7W+C3
Open­Street­Map ID
node 310988033
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Geo­Names ID
49528
Wiki­data ID
Q932175
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Satellite Map

Discover Mount Gahinga from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Mount Gahinga” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “جبل كيانخا”
  • Catalan: “Gahinga”
  • Catalan: “Mont Gahinga”
  • Catalan: “Mount Gahinga”
  • Cebuano: “Volcan Gahinga”
  • Chinese: “姆加新加火山”
  • Dutch: “Mount Gahinga”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كيانخا”
  • Esperanto: “Gahinga”
  • Estonian: “Gahinga”
  • French: “Gahinga”
  • French: “Mont Gahinga”
  • German: “Gahinga”
  • Hebrew: “הר גהינגה”
  • Hungarian: “Gahinga”
  • Indonesian: “Gunung Gahinga”
  • Italian: “Gahinga”
  • Japanese: “ガヒンガ山”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Ikirunga cya Gahinga”
  • Ladin: “Mount Gahinga”
  • Macedonian: “Гахинга”
  • Persian: “کوه گاهینگا”
  • Russian: “Гахинга”
  • Venetian: “Gahinga”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Kabonero and Musasa.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include ngarama batwa cave and Mgahinga Irish potato multiplication farm.

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