Murchison Falls

Murchison Falls, also known as Kabalega Falls, is a waterfall in , located at the apex of Lake Albert on the . At the top of Murchison Falls, the Nile forces its way through a gap in the rocks, only 7 m wide, and tumbles 43 m, before flowing westward into Lake Albert.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: waterfall on the Nile in Uganda
  • Also known as: “cascate Kabarega”, “Cataratas Kabalega”, “Cataratas Murchison”, “Kabalega Falls”, “Kabarega Falls”, “Murchison”, “Murchison-Fälle”, “Murchisonfälle”, “Murchisonov slap”, “slapovi Kabalega”, “Wodospad Kabalega”, “Wodospad Kabarega”, “Wodospady Murchisona”, “מפל מורצ’יסון”, and “מפל קבלגה”

Murchison Falls

Latitude
2.27653° or 2° 16′ 36″ north
Longitude
31.68908° or 31° 41′ 21″ east
Elevation
685 metres (2,247 feet)
IATA airport code
KBG
Open location code
6GJH7MGQ+JJ
Geo­Names ID
8436328
Wiki­data ID
Q495475
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Murchison Falls” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Murchison-waterval”
  • Arabic: “شلالات مورشيسون”
  • Bulgarian: “Мърчисън”
  • Catalan: “cascades Murchison”
  • Catalan: “Cascades Murchison”
  • Cebuano: “Murchison Falls”
  • Chinese: “默奇森瀑布”
  • Czech: “Murchisonovy vodopády”
  • Dutch: “Murchison Falls”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “موركيسون فالس”
  • Esperanto: “Murĉisona Akvofalo”
  • Finnish: “Murchisonin putous”
  • French: “Chutes Murchison”
  • French: “Murchison Falls”
  • Ganda: “Murchison Falls”
  • German: “Murchison Falls”
  • Hausa: “Murchison Falls”
  • Hebrew: “מפל מרצ’יסון”
  • Hungarian: “Murchison-vízesés”
  • Indonesian: “Air Terjun Murchison”
  • Italian: “cascate Murchison”
  • Italian: “Cascate Murchison”
  • Japanese: “マーチソン滝”
  • Latvian: “Mērčisona ūdenskritums”
  • Lithuanian: “Merčisono krioklys”
  • Low German: “Murchison-Waterfall”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Murchisonfallene”
  • Norwegian: “Murchisonfallene”
  • Persian: “مورچیسون فالز”
  • Polish: “Wodospad Murchisona”
  • Portuguese: “Murchison Falls”
  • Russian: “Кабарега”
  • Serbian: “Мерчисон водопад”
  • Slovak: “Murchisonove vodopády”
  • Slovenian: “Murchison Falls”
  • Slovenian: “Murchisonovi slapovi”
  • Spanish: “Cascadas Murchison”
  • Thai: “น้ำตกเมอร์ชิสัน”
  • Turkish: “Murchison Şelaleleri”
  • Ukrainian: “Мерчисон”

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