Pangani River
The Pangani River, is a major river of northeastern Tanzania. It has two main sources: the Ruvu, which rises as Lumi at Kilimanjaro, passes through Lake Jipe, and empties into the Nyumba ya Mungu Reservoir, and the Kikuletwa River, coming from the west and mainly fed by rivers of Mount Meru in Arusha Region, which also enters into the Nyumba ya Mungu Reservoir in Kilimanjaro Region.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Tanzania
- Also known as: “Ruvu River”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pangani.
Pangani
Town
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Pangani is a historic town and capital of Pangani District in the Tanga Region of Tanzania. The town lies 45 km south of the city of Tanga, at the mouth of the Pangani River in which the town is named after.
Pangani River
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Tanzania, East Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
Discover Pangani River from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Pangani River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Pangani”
- Belarusian: “Пангані”
- Bulgarian: “Пангани”
- Cebuano: “Pangani”
- Chinese: “潘加尼河”
- Croatian: “Pangani”
- Czech: “Pangani”
- Dutch: “Pangani”
- French: “Pangani”
- German: “Pangani”
- Greek: “Ποταμός Πανγκάνι”
- Irish: “Abhainn Pangani”
- Japanese: “パンガニ川”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Pangani”
- Kotava: “Pangani (kuksa)”
- Kotava: “Pangani”
- Lithuanian: “Panganis”
- Malayalam: “പന്ഗനി നദി”
- Northern Frisian: “Pangani”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pangani”
- Persian: “رودخانه پانگانی”
- Polish: “Pangani”
- Russian: “Пангани”
- Spanish: “Rio Pangani”
- Spanish: “Río Pangani”
- Swahili: “Pangani”
- Swedish: “Pangani”
- Ukrainian: “Пангані”
- Ukrainian: “Понгані”
- Venetian: “Fiume Pangani”
- Welsh: “Afon Pangani”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bweni and Putini.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pangani and Ras Muheza.
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About Mapcarta. 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 “Pangani River”. Photo: Aslak Raanes, CC BY 2.0.