Umba River
The Umba River is located in northeastern Tanzania in Lushoto and Mkinga Districts of Tanga Region. It rises in Schageiuforest in the West Usambara Mountains of Lushoto at 2,000 m altitude and flows on the north side of the mountain range to the east.- Type: Stream
- Description: river
- Also known as: “Mto Umba”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Kaufumbani and Kikwezani.
Kaufumbani
Village
The Coast Province was one of Kenya's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was Mombasa.
Kikwezani
Locality
The Coast Province was one of Kenya's eight provinces prior to 2010. It covered the entire country's coastline on the Indian Ocean. Its capital city was Mombasa. Kikwezani is situated 3 km west of Umba River.
Mguya
Locality
Mguya is a settlement in Kenya's Coast Province. For the Mpondomise, the Mguya is also a ritual that celebrates authority and fertility, and that reaffirms the heroic status of chiefs as the descendants of men who slew leopards and who brought nourishing rains. Mguya is situated 3 km west of Umba River.
Umba River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Isiolo County, Kenya, East Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Umba River” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Umba”
- Asturian: “Ríu Umba”
- Cebuano: “Umba”
- Chinese: “翁巴河”
- Dutch: “Umba”
- French: “fleuve Umba”
- French: “Umba”
- German: “Umba”
- Irish: “Abhainn Umba”
- Italian: “Umba”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi Umba (Tanzaniya)”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi Umba”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Umba”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Umba”
- Polish: “Umba”
- Spanish: “Río Umba (Tanzania)”
- Spanish: “Río Umba”
- Swahili: “Umba”
- Turkish: “Umba Nehri (Tanzanya)”
- Turkish: “Umba Nehri”
- Venetian: “Fiume Umba”
- Welsh: “Afon Umba”
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