Lake Kivu

meromictic lake in the East African Rift valley

LakeBodyOfWater meromictic_lake Q125912

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17 properties

Instance of: meromictic lake, lake^[5]
Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda^[3]^[4]
Part of: African Great Lakes^[9]
Coordinate location: 🗺️ -1.853°, 29.135°
Area: +2700^[13]
Basin country: Rwanda^[8]
Elevation above sea level: +1463^[12]
Has boundary: Rwanda^[18]
Inflows: Karundura^[6]
Length: +89^[11]
Located in the administrative territorial entity: city hall^[2]
Native label: Lake Kivu^[10]
Outflows: Ruzizi River^[7]
Vertical depth: +485^[17]
Volume as quantity: +500000^[16]
Watershed area: +7000^[15]
Width: +48^[14]

🏷️ Also known as

en Lake Kivu ar بحيرة كيفو cs Kivu cs Jezero Kivu da Kivusøen da Lake Kivu de Kivu-See de Kivusee de Kiwusee de Kiwu-See de Lac Kivu el Λίμνη Κίβου en-gb Kivu Lac es Lago Kivu fa درياچه كيوو fa درياچهٔ كيوو fa دریاچه کیوو fa دریاچهٔ کیوو fi Kivu-järvi fi Kivujärvi

🔖 Identifiers · 27

VIAF cluster ID: 315149531
Library of Congress authority ID: sh85072598
GND ID: 4098470-9
Image (Wikimedia Commons): Rwanda Scenic View.jpg ↗
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 12489889r
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: place/Lake-Kivu
FAST ID: 1333958
Freebase ID: /m/02k3wk
GNS Unique Feature ID: -2049735
GeoNames ID: 212508
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID: kivu
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme): 0035745

Show all 27 identifiers +15

Great Norwegian Encyclopedia ID: Kivusjøen
Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017): 2062708
ILEC World Lake Database ID: AFR-223
IdRef ID: 034108211
Interlingual Index ID: i85633
Museum-digital place ID: 20544
NL CR AUT ID: ge687681
National Library of Israel ID (old): 000704132
National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007545799405171
Online PWN Encyclopedia ID: 3922599
OpenStreetMap relation ID: 9072
Topic's main category: Category:Lake Kivu
Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID: kivu
WordNet 3.1 Synset ID: 09349205-n
Yale LUX ID: place/6ea0ef92-c3a2-4cb6-8fcf-4750addde2ef

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Located in time zoneP421

Africa/Lubumbashi 2026-09-26 H/LK · CD GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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Country 2

Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda

Instance of 2

lake, meromictic lake

← Located in or next to body of water 2

Idjwi, Nkombo Island

Basin country 1

Rwanda

Belongs to 1

African Great Lakes

Continent 1

Africa

Named after 1

Kivu Lacus

Outflows 1

Ruzizi River

Part of 1

African Great Lakes

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Category:Lake Kivu

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Category:Lake Kivu

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Mureaumont

← Mouth of the watercourse 1

Sebeya River

← Origin of the watercourse 1

Ruzizi River

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Summary

Lake Kivu is a meromictic lake^[1].

Body

Cultural Significance

Things named for Lake Kivu include Kivu Lacus^[19], a lake of Titan^[20].

Why It Matters

Entities named for it include Kivu Lacus^[19], a lake of Titan^[20].

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@misc{4ortxyz_lake-kivu_2026, author = {{4ort.xyz Knowledge Graph}}, title = {{Lake Kivu}}, year = {2026}, url = {https://4ort.xyz/entity/lake-kivu}, note = {Accessed: 2026-11-02}}

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8d ago · Score Beethoven · 2026-10-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Image commons → —

Image license → —

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+ 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Image: Rwanda Scenic View.jpg, better photo of the lake"
4w ago · Chroniqueur de Goma · 2026-10-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Sitelink count → 82

Wikipedia languages → ['af', 'ar', 'arz', 'ast', 'az', 'bcl', 'be', 'be_x_old', 'bg', 'bh', 'bn', 'br'

Located in the administrative territorial entity → city hall

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"/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Located in the administrative territorial entity: city hall"
18w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Local thumb → —

Instance of → —

Area → {'unit': 'Q712226', 'amount': '+2700'}

Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija ID → kivu

+ 18 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)

"/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/38899|batch #38899]]: Remove redundant P30, P17 is present"

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Lake Kivu

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