Rurubu River
The Ruvubu River is a river in central Africa whose waters gather from the most distant, southern portion of the Nile basin. It has a total length of 416 kilometres and a drainage basin of 14,000 km2.Photo: Amakuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rusumo Falls and Rusumo Hydroelectric Power Station.
Rusumo Falls
Waterfall
Photo: Amakuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Rusumo Falls is a waterfall located on the Kagera river on the border between Rwanda and Tanzania, part of the most distant headwaters of the river Nile.
Rusumo Hydroelectric Power Station
Power station
The Rusumo Hydroelectric Power Station, also known as the Rusumo Power Station, is an operational hydropower plant, with initial capacity installation of 80 megawatts.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rusumo.
Rurubu River
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Africa
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Ngozi Province, Burundi, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Rurubu River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Rurubu”
- Bulgarian: “Рурубу”
- Catalan: “Riu Rurubu”
- Cebuano: “Ruvubu”
- Chinese: “魯武武河”
- Chinese: “鲁武武河”
- Croatian: “Ruvubu”
- Croatian: “Ruvuvu”
- Dutch: “Rurubu River”
- Esperanto: “Rurubu (rivero)”
- Esperanto: “Rurubu”
- Estonian: “Ruvubu”
- Estonian: “Ruvuvu jõgi”
- Estonian: “Ruvuvu”
- Finnish: “Ruvubu”
- French: “Ruburu”
- French: “Ruvubu”
- French: “Ruvuvu”
- German: “Ruvusu”
- German: “Ruvuvu”
- Hausa: “Kogin Rurubu”
- Hebrew: “רורובו”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Ruvubu”
- Irish: “Abhainn Rurubu”
- Italian: “Ruvubu”
- Japanese: “ルブブ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Rurubu”
- Latvian: “Ruvuvu”
- Lithuanian: “Ruvuvu”
- Macedonian: “Рувубу”
- Macedonian: “Рувуву”
- Macedonian: “Рурубу”
- Nauru: “Rurubu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ruvubu”
- Norwegian: “Ruvubu”
- Polish: “Rurubu”
- Polish: “Ruvubu”
- Polish: “Ruvuvu”
- Portuguese: “Rio Rurubu”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ruvubu”
- Portuguese: “Rio Ruvuvu”
- Rundi: “Rurubu”
- Serbian: “Ruvubu”
- Serbian: “Рувубу”
- Serbian: “Рувуву”
- Spanish: “Río Rurubu”
- Swahili: “Mto Ruvuvu”
- Swedish: “Rurubufloden”
- Swedish: “Ruvubufloden”
- Swedish: “Ruvuvufloden”
- Ukrainian: “Рурубу”
- Uzbek: “Rurubu River”
- Vietnamese: “Sông Ruhuhu”
- Welsh: “Afon Rurubu”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Rusumo and Rususu.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Rusomo Hydroelectric Dam and Rusomo International Bridge.
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