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  2. Ulanga River - Wikipedia

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    The Ulanga River, also known as the Kilombero River, rises in the highlands of the southwest of Morogoro Region, Tanzania, on the eastern slope of the East African Rift. The river flows northeast along the northeastern border of the Lindi Region before it flows into the Rufiji River. The Rufiji eventually flows into the Indian Ocean on the ...

  3. List of rivers of Africa - Wikipedia

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    Kwando - Namibia, also known as Linyanti and Chobe in places. Limpopo - Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana. Luangwa River - Zambia. Mania River - Madagascar. Maputo River - South Africa, Eswatini, Mozambique. Molopo - Botswana, South Africa. Mooi River (Tugela) - South Africa. Mthatha River - South Africa.

  4. Bora people - Wikipedia

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    The Bora have guarded their lands from both indigenous foes and outsider colonials. Around the time of the 20th century, the rubber boom and Putumayo genocide had a devastating impact on the Boras, which suffered enslavement, physical abuse, and other detriments to their population. An unknown number of Bora people fled across the Caqueta River ...

  5. The African Queen (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Samuel dies during the night. That day, Allnutt, a London Cockney, arrives at the village. He is the mechanic and skipper of the African Queen, a steam-powered launch, owned by a Belgian mining corporation, that plies the upper reaches of the Ulanga River. Allnutt's two-man crew has deserted him because of the rumours of war and conscription.

  6. Tanzania - Wikipedia

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    Tanzania, [b] officially the United Republic of Tanzania, [c] is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region. It is bordered by Uganda to the northwest; Kenya to the northeast; the Indian Ocean to the east; Mozambique and Malawi to the south; Zambia to the southwest; and Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west.

  7. Bora Special Reserve - Wikipedia

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    Bora is in a transition zone between eastern humid forests and western dry forests which can be seen in the vegetation and fauna which belongs to both types.Dry deciduous forest is the dominant habitat in the reserve and there are also areas of degraded secondary forest, gallery forest and savannah, as well as some areas converted into rice paddies. [4]

  8. Bora - Wikipedia

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    Bora (wind), a north to north-eastern katabatic wind in areas near the Adriatic Sea. Bora River, a name for the Lotru River in Romania; Bora River, a semi-fictional river in The African Queen (novel), also named the Ulanga-Bora River, know often known as the Ulanga River.

  9. List of rivers of South Africa - Wikipedia

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    A map showing South Africa's cities, main towns, selected villages, rivers, and its highest peak. This is a list of rivers in South Africa. It is quite common to find the Afrikaans word -rivier as part of the name. Another common suffix is "-kamma", from the Khoisan term for "river" [1] (often tautologically the English term "river" is added to ...