Deriba
Deriba is a Pleistocene or Holocene caldera in Darfur, Sudan. Part of the volcanoes of the Marra Mountains, it lies on the Darfur dome and like the Tagabo Hills and Meidob Hills volcanism may be the product of a mantle plume.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Crater lake
- Description: mountain in Sudan
- Also known as: “Deriba Caldera” and “Deriba Lakes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marrah Mountains.
Marrah Mountains
Volcano
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Marrah Mountains or Marra Mountains are a range of volcanic peaks in a massif that rises up to 3,012 metres. They are the highest mountains in Sudan. Marrah Mountains is situated 4 km southwest of Deriba.
Deriba
- Categories: volcanic crater lake, caldera, mountain, ridge, crater, and body of water
- Location: Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Abkhazian to Swahili—“Deriba” goes by many names.
- Abkhazian: “Дериба”
- Arabic: “كالديرا دريبا”
- Catalan: “Deriba”
- Croatian: “Deriba”
- Czech: “Deriba”
- Dutch: “Deriba”
- French: “lac Marra Deriba”
- French: “Lac Marra Deriba”
- German: “Deriba Caldera”
- German: “Deriba-Caldera”
- Hungarian: “Deriba-kráter”
- Italian: “Deriba Caldera”
- Japanese: “Deribaカルデラ”
- Lithuanian: “Deribos kaldera”
- Moroccan Arabic: “كالديرا دريبا”
- Persian: “دریبا (کالدرا)”
- Persian: “دریبا”
- Polish: “Deriba Caldera”
- Portuguese: “Deriba”
- Scots: “Deriba (caldera)”
- Slovak: “Dariba”
- Spanish: “Deriba”
- Swahili: “Deriba Caldera”
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