Mount Kibo

Mount Kibo is a volcano in , , and has an elevation of 5,149 metres. Mount Kibo is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .
Photo: Yosemite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
  • Type: Volcano with an elevation of 5,149 metres
  • Description: highest mountain in the Kilimanjaro massif
  • Also known as: “Kibo” and “Mt. Kibo”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Mount Kilimanjaro and Furtwängler Glacier.

Photo: ZSM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an inactive stratovolcano in , near the border with . At 5,895 m above sea level, Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest peak and the world's highest free-standing mountain.

Glacier
Photo: Yosemite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is located near the summit of in . The glacier is named after Walter Furtwängler who, with Siegfried König, formed the fourth party to ascend to the summit of Kilimanjaro in 1912.

Mount Kibo

Latitude
-3.0646° or 3° 3′ 53″ south
Longitude
37.3586° or 37° 21′ 31″ east
Elevation
5,149 metres (16,893 feet)
Open location code
6G8VW9P5+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 318580515
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­volcano
Wiki­data ID
Q1394606
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Satellite Map

Discover Mount Kibo from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Venetian—“Mount Kibo” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kibo”
  • Albanian: “Mali Kibo”
  • Arabic: “جبل كيبو”
  • Arabic: “كيبو”
  • Armenian: “Կիբո”
  • Basque: “Kibo”
  • Belarusian: “Кіба”
  • Belarusian: “Кібо”
  • Breton: “Kibo”
  • Catalan: “Kibo”
  • Czech: “Kibo”
  • Danish: “Kibo”
  • Dutch: “Kibo”
  • French: “Kibo”
  • Galician: “Kibo”
  • German: “Kibo”
  • Hungarian: “Kibo-hegy”
  • Hungarian: “Kibo”
  • Italian: “Kibo”
  • Japanese: “キボ峰”
  • Ladin: “Mount Kibo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Kibo”
  • Luxembourgish: “Mount Kibo”
  • Moroccan Arabic: “جبل كيبو”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kibo”
  • Papiamento: “Kibo”
  • Polish: “Kibo”
  • Portuguese: “Kibo”
  • Russian: “Кибо”
  • Slovak: “Kilimandžáro”
  • Spanish: “Kibo”
  • Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⴰⴷⵔⴰⵔ ⵏ ⴽⵉⴱⵓ”
  • Swedish: “Kibo”
  • Tachelhit: “Adrar n Kibu”
  • Ukrainian: “Кібо”
  • Venetian: “Kibo”

Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Crater Camp and Gilman’s Point.

Notable Places Nearby

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