Nyamulagira

Nyamulagira,

volcano, Congo (Kinshasa): see NyamuragiraNyamuragira
or Nyamulagira,
active volcano (11,033 ft/3,058 m), S Virunga range, in E Congo (Kinshasa) near the Rwanda border, N of Lake Kivu and 15 mi (25 km) N of Goma, in S Virunga National Park.
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Nyamulagira

 

(also Nyamlagira, Nyamuragira), an active shield volcano in the Virunga group in Zaïre, north of Lake Kivu. Height, 3,056 m. The volcanic dome is gently sloping and topped by a wide caldera (about 2 km) with steep and partially collapsed walls and a flat bottom dissected by fissures. The largest eruption occurred in 1938–40.

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