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8 unusual facts about Albertine Rift


Africanis

It is generally accepted that these migrations traveled along the Albertine Rift and the Lake region.

Antrophyum mannianum

Antrophyum mannianum is a species of the genus Antrophyum (fern family Vittariaceae) occurring in the African rain forest and montane forest of East Africa and the Albertine Rift.

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest

Bwindi Impenetrable Forest is a large primeval forest located in southwestern Uganda, in the Kanungu District on the edge of the Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift, at altitudes spanning from 1,160 to 2,607 meters.

Bwindi Impenetrable National Park

In particular the area shares in the high levels of endemisms of the Albertine Rift.

China–Uganda relations

Among these is the oil company CNOOC, which early in 2012 acquired one third of the exploitation of Uganda's oil in the Albertine region of Uganda and will be involved in the construction of an oil refinery in the country.

Congo-Nile Divide

In the central section, the divide runs along the mountains that form the west flank of the Albertine Rift from Lake Albert in the north, past Lake Edward and on towards the north end of Lake Kivu.

In the south, the divide runs from a point near the southwest corner of Lake Victoria in a southwesterly direction through Tanzania and Burundi to the mountains that form the eastern wall of the Albertine Rift.

Ishango

As the source of the Semliki River, where the waters of Lake Edward begin to flow down the Albertine Rift into Lake Albert, Ishango is one of the sources of the Nile.


Chrysichthys

Chrysichthys macrotis, Van Neer, 1994, is known from the Miocene-Pliocene of the Albertine Rift in Uganda and Chrysichthys mahengeensis, Murray & Budney, 2003, is known from the Eocene of Mahenge, Tanzania.


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