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The southern part includes a substantial portion of Lake Victoria, shared with Kenya and Tanzania. Uganda is in the African Great Lakes region, it lies within the Nile basin, and has a varied equatorial climate .
Basin size. 3,351 square kilometres (1,294 sq mi) The Yala River is a river in western Kenya, a tributary of Lake Victoria . It generally flows fast over a rocky bed through a wide valley before joining the Nzoia River to form the Yala Swamp on the border of Lake Victoria. The land along its course is mostly cultivated or used for grazing, with ...
Lake Hillier, Western Australia Pink Lake, Victoria, Australia Pink lake in Namibia. A pink lake is a lake that has a red or pink colour. This is often caused by the presence of salt-tolerant algae that produces carotenoids, such as Dunaliella salina, usually in conjunction with specific bacteria and archaea, which may vary from lake to lake.
Lake Makgadikgadi ( Setswana: Letsha la Makgadikgadi, [lɪt͜sʰa la makχʰadiˈkχʰaːdi]) was a paleolake that existed in what is now the Kalahari Desert in Botswana from 2,000,000 years BP to 10,000 years BP. It may have once covered an area of from 80,000 to 275,000 km 2 (30,888 to 106,178 sq mi) and was 30 metres (98 ft) deep. [1]
Victoria. (1959) Victoria anchored in Bukoba, Tanzania in 2012. MV Victoria is a Lake Victoria ferry operated by the Marine Services Company Limited of Tanzania . Until Kenyan independence from the United Kingdom in 1963 she was the Royal Mail Ship RMS Victoria. [3] She then operated under the Kenyan flag until 1977, when she was transferred to ...
White Nile. / 2.28222°S 29.33111°E / -2.28222; 29.33111. The White Nile ( Arabic: النيل الأبيض an-nīl al-'abyaḍ) is a river in Africa, the minor of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the larger being the Blue Nile. [4] The name "White" comes from the clay sediment carried in the water that changes the water to a pale ...
Lake Titicaca (/ t ɪ t ɪ ˈ k ɑː k ə /; Spanish: Lago Titicaca [ˈlaɣo titiˈkaka]; Quechua: Titiqaqa Qucha) is a large freshwater lake in the Andes mountains on the border of Bolivia and Peru. It is often called the highest navigable lake in the world. Titicaca is the largest lake in South America both in terms of the volume of water and ...
Crash location on a map of Tanzania. Precision Air Flight 494 (PW494) was a scheduled domestic passenger flight within Tanzania, from Julius Nyerere International Airport to Bukoba Airport via Mwanza Airport. On 6 November 2022, the ATR 42–500 plane crashed in Lake Victoria while attempting to land at Bukoba during bad weather and low visibility.