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Lake Kivu empties into the Ruzizi River, which flows southwards into Lake Tanganyika. [4] In 1894, German officer and colonial ruler Gustav Adolf von Götzen was the first recorded European to visit the lake. Kivu lake shoreline at Gisenyi, Rwanda. In the past, Lake Kivu drained toward the north, contributing to the White Nile.
Kivu is also the name for the entire region surrounding Lake Kivu, including the portions in Rwanda which contain the vast majority of the lake area's population (the contiguous towns of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Gisenyi in Rwanda, with a combined population approaching 1,000,000, form the largest urbanised area in the Lake Kivu area). [3]
Lake Muhazi is apparently too narrow to show up on this map. Lake Kivu , between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, is by far the largest Lake Muhazi , about twenty kilometres east of Kigali : a long, narrow lake running roughly east–west and extending north and south into a number of tributary valleys
The large rift lakes of Africa are the ancient home of great biodiversity, and 10% of the world's fish species live in this region. Countries in the area which are bounded by the lakes of the Great Lakes region include Burundi , the Democratic Republic of the Congo , Ethiopia , Kenya , Malawi , Mozambique , Rwanda , Zambia , Tanzania , and Uganda .
Goma is the capital and largest city of the North Kivu Province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.It is located on the northern shore of Lake Kivu and shares borders with Bukumu Chiefdom to the north, Rwanda to the east and Masisi Territory to the west.
The city features a resort on the shores of Lake Kivu, with several hotels and three sandy beaches. The area is also known for water sports . The northern shore of the lake on which Goma and Gisenyi lie is a flat plain featuring lava formations from the eruptions of nearby Mount Nyiragongo .
In the southeast, Lake Mweru straddles the border with Zambia. [1] On the eastern frontier, Lac Kivu, Central Africa's highest lake and a key tourist center, and Lake Tanganyika, just south of Lac Kivu, both feed into the Lualaba River, the name often given to the upper extension of the Congo River. [1]
The district lies on the shores of Lake Kivu, around the city of Gisenyi, and just across the border from the Congolese city of Goma.. It is bordered in the east by Nyabihu District, west and north by the Democratic Republic of the Congo and south by Rutsiro district and is 154.7 km from the Rwandan capital Kigali.