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Mount Karisimbi

Volcano in Africa

Summary

Volcano in Africa

Field	Value
name	Mount Karisimbi
photo	Karisimbi2.jpg
photo_caption	Karisimbi summit seen from the campsite in 2005
photo_size	280
elevation_m	4507
elevation_ref
prominence_m	3312
prominence_ref
Ranked 61st
listing	Country high point
Ultra
Ribu
map	Rwanda
map_caption	Location of Mount Karisimbi in Rwanda (on the border with the DRC)
label_position	right
location	Democratic Republic of the Congo - Rwanda border
range	Virunga Mountains
coordinates
coordinates_ref
formed_by	Volcanism along the Albertine Rift
type	Stratovolcano
last_eruption	8050 BCE (?)

Ranked 61st Ultra Ribu Mount Karisimbi is a stratovolcano in the Virunga Mountains on the border between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. At 4507 m, Karisimbi is the highest of the eight major mountains of the mountain range, which is a part of Albertine Rift, the western branch of the East African Rift. Karisimbi is flanked by Mikeno to the north, Bisoke to the east and Nyiragongo to the west, on the other side of the Rift Valley. Karisimbi is the 11th highest mountain of Africa and ranked 61st by prominence.

The name Karisimbi comes from the word 'amasimbi', which means snow in the local Kinyarwanda language. Snow can mostly be found during the dry season in June, July and August on the top of the volcano.

Between Karisimbi and Bisoke is the Karisoke Research Center, which was founded by Dian Fossey in order to observe the mountain gorillas living in this area.

History

On February 27, 1908, an expedition led by Egon Von Kirschstein was coming down the Branca Crater when a hailstorm and snowstorm caused twenty of the expedition's porters to perish.

In May 2010, a series of non-volcanic mudflows triggered by rain occurred along the volcano's western flank. The mudflows carried volcanic rocks and vegetation debris downhill. At Kibiriga, the mudflows caused severe damage and killed at least 50 people.

Notes

References

[http://www.peaklist.org/WWlists/ultras/africa.html "Africa Ultra-Prominences"] Peaklist.org. Retrieved 2011-11-20.
[https://books.google.com/books?id=8m09AAAAYAAJ&dq=froze+on+mount+karissimbi&pg=PA416 Bulletin of the American Geographical Society, Volume 40 p. 416 1908]
[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn91066782/1908-06-13/ed-1/seq-3/#date1=1908&index=0&rows=20&words=Karissimbi&searchType=basic&sequence=0&state=&date2=1908&proxtext=karissimbi&y=14&x=12&dateFilterType=yearRange&page=1 The Barre Daily Times June 13, 1908, 20 men frozen to death]
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