Rusumo Falls
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Amakuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Waterfall
- Description: waterfall in Kagera river
- Also known as: “Chutes de Rusumo” and “Chutes de Rusumu”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rusumo Hydroelectric Power Station.
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.
Rusumo Falls
- Category: body of water
- Location: Rwanda, East Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
-2.3828° or 2° 22′ 58″ southLongitude
30.78331° or 30° 46′ 60″ eastElevation
1,313 metres (4,308 feet)Open location code
6G9GJQ8M+V8OpenStreetMap ID
node 3651273198OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=waterfall
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Rusumo Falls” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شلالات روسومو”
- Catalan: “Cascades Rusumo”
- Cebuano: “Rusumo Falls”
- Chinese: “魯蘇莫瀑布”
- Dutch: “Rusumo Falls”
- Esperanto: “Akvofalo Rusumo”
- Estonian: “Rusumo juga”
- French: “chutes Rusumo”
- French: “Chutes Rusumo”
- German: “Rusumo Falls”
- Hausa: “Faɗuwar ruwan Rusumo”
- Hebrew: “מפלי רוסומו”
- Japanese: “ルスモ滝”
- Kinyarwanda: “Isumo rya Rusumo”
- Persian: “آبشار روسومو”
- Slovenian: “Slapovi Rusumo”
- Spanish: “Cataratas Rusumo”
- Ukrainian: “Русумо (водоспад)”
- Ukrainian: “Русумо”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Rusumo and Kabuye A.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include One Stop Border Post and Rusumo.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". 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 “Rusumo Falls”. Photo: Amakuru, CC BY-SA 3.0.