Misplaced Pages

Mahale Mountains

Article snapshot taken from[REDACTED] with creative commons attribution-sharealike license. Give it a read and then ask your questions in the chat. We can research this topic together.
Mountain range in Uvinza District, Kigoma Region
This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Mahale Mountains" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (December 2023) (Learn how and when to remove this message)
Satellite image of the Mahale Mountains within Mahale Mountains National Park, with park's borders are outlined in yellow.

The Mahale Mountains are a mountain range in Uvinza District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania. The mountains are on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika. They rise to 2,462 metres (8,077 ft) to Mount Nkungwe, Uvinza's highest point.

The range was once the ancestral home of the Holoholo people. Currently the area is a protected wildlife sanctuary, the Mahale Mountains National Park, which harbors chimpanzees and lions.

Holoholo

They were the traditional homeland of the Holoholo people, before being relocated in the 1970s for the creation of Mahale Mountains National Park.

References

  1. Fitzpatrick, Mary (2012-04-26). "Tanzania's Mahale Mountains National Park". BBC. Retrieved 2023-12-16.
  2. Finke, Jens (2003). The Rough Guide to Tanzania (1st ed.). Rough Guides. p. 537. ISBN 1-85828-783-9.

See also


6°12′00″S 30°00′00″E / 6.2000°S 30.0000°E / -6.2000; 30.0000

Stub icon

This Tanzania location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it.

Categories:
Mahale Mountains Add topic