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Ruzizi River

river in Central Africa
RiverBodyOfWater transboundary_river Q748195

Facts

13 properties
Instance of
transboundary river
Country
Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda[2][3][4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ -3.364°, 29.268°, 🗺️ -2.490°, 28.893°
Basin country
Rwanda, Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo[5][6][7]
Discharge
+400[15]
Drainage basin
Congo Basin[16]
Elevation above sea level
+950[14]
Heritage designation
Ramsar site[11]
Length
+117[13]
Mouth of the watercourse
Lake Tanganyika[8]
Official name
Rusizi[12]
Origin of the watercourse
Lake Kivu[9]
Tributary
Kaburantwa River[10]
🏷️ Also known as
en Rusizi en Ruzizi River ar نهر روزيزي cs Ruzizi da Ruzizifloden de Rusizi es Rio Ruzizi es Río Ruzizi es Ruzizi fa رودخانه روزیزی fr Ruzizi he רוזיזי id Sungai Ruzizi it Fiume Ruzizi it Rusizi ja ルジジ川 ko 루지지강 pt Rio Rusizi ru Рузизи sv Rusizi
🔖 Identifiers · 10
VIAF cluster ID
234757335
GND ID
4377912-8
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
RusiziRiver.jpg ↗
De Agostini ID
Rusizi
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Ruzizi-River
Freebase ID
/m/05gfbj
GNS Unique Feature ID
9061529
GeoNames ID
443777
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1213500
Topic's main category
Category:Ruzizi River

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Located in time zoneP421
Africa/Bujumbura 2026-09-26 H/STM · BI GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
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Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
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🔗 Connections
Basin country 3
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi
Country 3
Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi
← Crosses 2
Pont Ruzizi I, Pont Ruzizi II
Drainage basin 1
Congo Basin
Heritage designation 1
Ramsar site
Instance of 1
transboundary river
Mouth of the watercourse 1
Lake Tanganyika
Origin of the watercourse 1
Lake Kivu
Residents 1
Gustave
Tributary 1
Kaburantwa River
← Inflows 1
Lake Tanganyika
← Lowest point 1
Rwanda
← Mouth of the watercourse 1
Rubyiro River
← Outflows 1
Lake Kivu
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Summary

Ruzizi River is a transboundary river[1].

Related Entities

Burundi Democratic Republic of the Congo Lake Tanganyika Rwanda

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . crrebac.org. crrebac.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 17w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikidata description → river in Central Africa
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  2. 21w ago · MatSuBot bot · 2026-06-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Country → Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda
    Heritage designation → Ramsar site
    Coordinate location → {'lat': -3.3644444444444446, 'lon': 29.268333333333334}, {'lat': -2.4902777777778, 'lon': 28.893055555556}
    Country → —
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
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