Turkwel River
The Turkwel River is a river flowing from Mount Elgon on the border of Kenya and Uganda to Lake Turkana. The river is called the Suam River from its source to the border at Turkana County of Kenya.
- Stream
- …lies at an elevation of 361 metres (1,184 feet)
- Description: river in Kenya
- Also known as“Suam River”“Tirrikoel”“Turkwell”
Turkwel River
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Latitude
3.05772° or 3° 3′ 28″ north
Longitude
36.16611° or 36° 9′ 58″ east
Open location code
6GMR3558+3C
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Turkwel River” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Turkwel”
- Cebuano: “Turkwel”
- Chinese: “特克韋爾河”
- Chinese: “特克韦尔河”
- Dutch: “Turkwel”
- French: “Turkwel”
- Georgian: “ტერკუელი”
- German: “Suam”
- German: “Turkwel”
- Hausa: “Kogin Turkwel”
- Igbo: “Osimiri Turkwel”
- Irish: “Abhainn Turkwel”
- Kinyarwanda: “Umugezi wa Turkwel”
- Lithuanian: “Turkvelas”
- Mingrelian: “ტურკველი”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Turkwel”
- Polish: “Turkwel”
- Russian: “Турквел”
- Slovenian: “Suam”
- Slovenian: “Turkwel”
- Swahili: “Mto Turkwel”
- Tamil: “துர்க்வெல் ஆறு”
- Ukrainian: “Турквел”
- Venetian: “Fiume Turkwel”
- Welsh: “Afon Turkwel”
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