Murchison Falls, Uganda
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 10.45 mi
- Elevation gain
- 509 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 335 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,383 ft
- TrailRank
- 19
- Min elevation
- 2,047 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 3 hours 59 minutes
- Coordinates
- 664
- Uploaded
- August 28, 2018
- Recorded
- August 2018
near Paraa, Northern Region (ئۇگاندا)
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Itinerary description
Excursió en barca pel Nil Victòria i trek des del embarcador molt a prop de la caiguda de les "Murch Falls" per remuntar tor el salt fins a la part superior.
Avistament de gran quantitat d'aus aquàtiques i cocodrils!
"Murchison Falls, also known as Kabalega Falls, is a waterfall between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert on the White Nile River in Uganda. At the top of Murchison Falls, the Nile forces its way through a gap in the rocks, only 7 metres wide, and tumbles 43 metres, before flowing westward into Lake Albert. The outlet of Lake Victoria sends around 300 cubic meters per second of water over the falls, squeezed into a gorge less than ten metres wide.
Sir Samuel and Florence Baker were the first Europeans to find them. Baker named them after Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society. The falls lend their name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National Park.
During the regime of Idi Amin in the 1970s the name was changed to Kabalega Falls, after the Omukama (King) Kabalega of Bunyoro, although this was never legally promulgated. The name reverted to Murchison Falls following the downfall of Idi Amin.
Ernest Hemingway crashed a plane just downriver from Murchison Falls in 1954". (Wikipedia)
Avistament de gran quantitat d'aus aquàtiques i cocodrils!
"Murchison Falls, also known as Kabalega Falls, is a waterfall between Lake Kyoga and Lake Albert on the White Nile River in Uganda. At the top of Murchison Falls, the Nile forces its way through a gap in the rocks, only 7 metres wide, and tumbles 43 metres, before flowing westward into Lake Albert. The outlet of Lake Victoria sends around 300 cubic meters per second of water over the falls, squeezed into a gorge less than ten metres wide.
Sir Samuel and Florence Baker were the first Europeans to find them. Baker named them after Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society. The falls lend their name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National Park.
During the regime of Idi Amin in the 1970s the name was changed to Kabalega Falls, after the Omukama (King) Kabalega of Bunyoro, although this was never legally promulgated. The name reverted to Murchison Falls following the downfall of Idi Amin.
Ernest Hemingway crashed a plane just downriver from Murchison Falls in 1954". (Wikipedia)
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