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.
  • Stream
  • …lies at an elevation of 1,321 metres (4,334 feet)
  • Description: river in Burundi
  • Also known as
    “Rivière Ruvubu”
    “Rurubu”
    “Ruvubu Rives”
    “Ruvuvu”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Rusumo Falls and Rusumo Hydroelectric Power Station.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rusumo.

Rurubu River

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Latitude
-2.38861° or 2° 23′ 19″ south
Longitude
30.78111° or 30° 46′ 52″ east
Open location code
6G9GJQ6J+HC
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID

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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”
  • Dagbani: “Rurubu Mɔɣili”
  • Dagbani: “Rurubu River”
  • Dutch: “Rurubu River”
  • Esperanto: “Rurubu (rivero)”
  • Esperanto: “Rurubu”
  • Estonian: “Ruvubu”
  • Estonian: “Ruvuvu jõgi”
  • Estonian: “Ruvuvu”
  • Finnish: “Ruvubu”
  • French: “Rivière ruvubu”
  • French: “Rivière Ruvubu”
  • French: “Ruvubu”
  • Fulah: “Rurubu River”
  • German: “Ruvusu”
  • German: “Ruvuvu”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rurubu River”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Rurubu”
  • Ghanaian Pidgin English: “Ruvuvu”
  • Hausa: “Kogin Rurubu”
  • Hausa: “Rurubu”
  • Hausa: “Ruvuvu”
  • 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”
  • Rundi: “Ruvubu”
  • Serbian: “Ruvubu”
  • Serbian: “Рувубу”
  • Serbian: “Рувуву”
  • Somali: “Webiga Rurubu”
  • Spanish: “Río Rurubu”
  • Swahili: “Mto Ruvuvu”
  • Swedish: “Rurubufloden”
  • Swedish: “Ruvubufloden”
  • Swedish: “Ruvuvufloden”
  • Tswana: “Noka ya Rurubu”
  • Ukrainian: “Рурубу”
  • Uzbek: “Rurubu River”
  • Vietnamese: “Sông Ruhuhu”
  • Welsh: “Afon Rurubu”

Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Rusomo Hydroelectric Dam and Rusomo International Bridge.

Burundi: Highlights

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