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72 relations: African Great Lakes, Albertine Rift, Amphilius, Biogas, Bralirwa Brewery, Bukavu, Clarias, Clarias gariepinus, Columbia Encyclopedia, Cyangugu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Diatom, East African red-finned barb, East African Rift, Emissions trading, Food and Agriculture Organization, Fresh water, Freshwater crab, Gas engine, Gisenyi, Goma, Haplochromis, Haroun Tazieff, Idjwi, Introduced species, Kabaré, Kahuzi-Biéga National Park, Kibuye, Rwanda, KivuWatt Power Station, Lake Edward, Lake George (Uganda), Lake island, Lake Monoun, Lake Nyos, Lake Rukwa minnow, Lake Tanganyika, Lake Tanganyika sardine, Lake Victoria, Limnic eruption, List of lakes by depth, Mazuku, Meromictic lake, Methane, Monohydrocalcite, Nile tilapia, Oreochromis leucostictus, Oreochromis macrochir, Pellegrin's barb, PH, Phytoplankton, ..., Planktivore, Potamonautes lirrangensis, Potamonautes mutandensis, Power (physics), Pyrite, Redbreast tilapia, Redspot barb, Retreat at Lake Kivu, Rift valley, Rift Valley lakes, Ripon barbel, Ruzizi River, Rwanda, Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sapropel, Swahili language, Trophic state index, Tsunamis in lakes, Undescribed taxon, Virunga National Park, Volcano, Watt. Expand index (22 more) »
African Great Lakes
The African Great Lakes (Maziwa Makuu) are a series of lakes constituting the part of the Rift Valley lakes in and around the East African Rift.
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Albertine Rift
The Albertine Rift is the western branch of the East African Rift, covering parts of Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania.
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Amphilius
Amphilius is a genus of catfishes of the family Amphiliidae.
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Biogas
Biogas typically refers to a mixture of different gases produced by the breakdown of organic matter in the absence of oxygen.
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Bralirwa Brewery
Bralirwa, also known by its French name Brasseries et Limonaderies du Rwanda, is the largest brewer and soft beverage company in Rwanda.
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Bukavu
Bukavu (former official names: Costermansville (French) and Costermansstad (Dutch)) is a city in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), lying at the extreme south-western edge of Lake Kivu, west of Cyangugu in Rwanda, and separated from it by the outlet of the Ruzizi River.
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Clarias
Clarias is a genus of catfishes (order Siluriformes) of the family Clariidae, the airbreathing catfishes.
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Clarias gariepinus
Clarias gariepinus or African sharptooth catfish is a species of catfish of the family Clariidae, the airbreathing catfishes.
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Columbia Encyclopedia
The Columbia Encyclopedia is a one-volume encyclopedia produced by Columbia University Press and in the last edition, sold by the Gale Group.
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Cyangugu
Cyangugu (formerly Shangugu) is a city and capital of the Rusizi District in Western Province, Rwanda.
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (République démocratique du Congo), also known as DR Congo, the DRC, Congo-Kinshasa or simply the Congo, is a country located in Central Africa.
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Diatom
Diatoms (diá-tom-os "cut in half", from diá, "through" or "apart"; and the root of tém-n-ō, "I cut".) are a major group of microorganisms found in the oceans, waterways and soils of the world.
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East African red-finned barb
The East African red-finned barb (Enteromius apleurogramma) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Cyprinidae. It is found in Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, and Tanzania. Its natural habitats are rivers, swamps, freshwater lakes, freshwater marshes, and inland deltas. It is not considered a threatened species by the IUCN.
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East African Rift
The East African Rift (EAR) is an active continental rift zone in East Africa.
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Emissions trading
Emissions trading, or cap and trade, is a government, market-based approach to controlling pollution by providing economic incentives for achieving reductions in the emissions of pollutants.
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Food and Agriculture Organization
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture, Organizzazione delle Nazioni Unite per l'Alimentazione e l'Agricoltura) is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger.
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Fresh water
Fresh water (or freshwater) is any naturally occurring water except seawater and brackish water.
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Freshwater crab
There are around 1,300 species of freshwater crabs, distributed throughout the tropics and subtropics, divided among eight families.
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Gas engine
A gas engine is an internal combustion engine which runs on a gas fuel, such as coal gas, producer gas, biogas, landfill gas or natural gas.
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Gisenyi
Gisenyi is a city in Rubavu district in Rwanda's Western Province.
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Goma
Goma is the capital city of North Kivu province in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Haplochromis
Haplochromis is a ray-finned fish genus in the family Cichlidae.
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Haroun Tazieff
Haroun Tazieff (Warsaw, 11 May 1914 – Paris, 2 February 1998) was a Polish, Belgian and French volcanologist and geologist.
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Idjwi
Idjwi, or Ijwi, is an island in Lake Kivu belonging to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in the Sud-Kivu province.
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Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
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Kabaré
Kabaré is an Administrative territory/District in the South Kivu Province in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Kahuzi-Biéga National Park
The Kahuzi-Biega National Park is a protected area near Bukavu town in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Kibuye, Rwanda
Kibuye is a city in Karongi District, and the headquarters of the Western Province in Rwanda.
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KivuWatt Power Station
KivuWatt Power Station is a methane gas-fired thermal power plant in Rwanda.
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Lake Edward
Lake Edward, Rutanzige or Edward Nyanza is the smallest of the African Great Lakes.
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Lake George (Uganda)
Lake George or Lake Dweru is a lake in Uganda.
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Lake island
A lake island is any landmass within a lake.
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Lake Monoun
Lake Monoun is a lake in West Province, Cameroon, that lies in the Oku Volcanic Field.
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Lake Nyos
Lake Nyos is a crater lake in the Northwest Region of Cameroon, located about northwest of Yaoundé the capital.
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Lake Rukwa minnow
The Lake Rukwa minnow (Raiamas moorii) is a species of ray-finned fish in the Cyprinidae family.
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Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake.
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Lake Tanganyika sardine
The Lake Tanganyika sardine (Limnothrissa miodon) is a species of freshwater fish in the family Clupeidae which was endemic to Lake Tanganyika but which has now been introduced to other lakes in Africa as a food source.
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Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria (Nam Lolwe in Luo; Nalubaale in Luganda; Nyanza in Kinyarwanda and some Bantu languages) is one of the African Great Lakes.
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Limnic eruption
A limnic eruption, also termed a lake overturn, is a rare type of natural disaster in which dissolved carbon dioxide suddenly erupts from deep lake waters, forming a gas cloud capable of suffocating wildlife, livestock, and humans.
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List of lakes by depth
This page lists the world's deepest lakes.
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Mazuku
In geology, a mazuku (Swahili: evil wind) is a pocket of carbon dioxide–rich air that can be lethal to any human or animal life inside.
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Meromictic lake
A meromictic lake has layers of water that do not intermix.
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Methane
Methane is a chemical compound with the chemical formula (one atom of carbon and four atoms of hydrogen).
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Monohydrocalcite
Monohydrocalcite is a mineral that is a hydrous form of calcium carbonate, CaCO3·H2O.
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Nile tilapia
The Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) is a species of tilapia, a cichlid fish native to Africa from Egypt south to east and central Africa, and as far west as Gambia.
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Oreochromis leucostictus
Oreochromis leucostictus is a species of cichlid originally native to the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda.
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Oreochromis macrochir
Oreochromis macrochir (longfin tilapia, greenhead tilapia, or greenhead bream) is a species of cichlid native to the Zambezi Basin, Lake Mweru, and Lake Bangweulu.
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Pellegrin's barb
The Pellegrin's barb (Enteromius pellegrini) is a species of cyprinid fish.
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PH
In chemistry, pH is a logarithmic scale used to specify the acidity or basicity of an aqueous solution.
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Phytoplankton
Phytoplankton are the autotrophic (self-feeding) components of the plankton community and a key part of oceans, seas and freshwater basin ecosystems.
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Planktivore
A planktivore is an aquatic organism that feeds on planktonic food, including zooplankton and phytoplankton.
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Potamonautes lirrangensis
Potamonautes lirrangensis, the Malawi blue crab,Dobson, M. (2004).
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Potamonautes mutandensis
Potamonautes mutandensis is an endangered species of freshwater crab in the family Potamonautidae.
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Power (physics)
In physics, power is the rate of doing work, the amount of energy transferred per unit time.
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Pyrite
The mineral pyrite, or iron pyrite, also known as fool's gold, is an iron sulfide with the chemical formula FeS2 (iron(II) disulfide).
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Redbreast tilapia
The redbreast tilapia, Coptodon rendalli, is a species of fish in the Cichlidae family.
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Redspot barb
The redspot barb (Enteromius kerstenii) is a species of freshwater cyprinid fish found in East Africa.
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Retreat at Lake Kivu
The Retreat at Lake Kivu is an international forum hosted by Never Again International for discussing issues related to genocide at Lake Kivu, Rwanda.
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Rift valley
A rift valley is a linear-shaped lowland between several highlands or mountain ranges created by the action of a geologic rift or fault.
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Rift Valley lakes
The Rift Valley lakes are a group of lakes in the East African Rift that runs north-south through the eastern side of the African continent, from Ethiopia in the north to Malawi in the south.
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Ripon barbel
The Ripon barbel (Labeobarbus altianalis) is an East African ray-finned fish species in the family Cyprinidae.
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Ruzizi River
The Ruzizi (also sometimes spelled Rusizi) is a river, long, that flows from Lake Kivu to Lake Tanganyika in Central Africa, descending from about to about above sea level over its length.
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Rwanda
Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.
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Sake, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Sake is a town in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the eastern province of North Kivu.
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Sapropel
Sapropel (a contraction of ancient Greek words sapros and pelos, meaning putrefaction and mud, respectively) is a term used in marine geology to describe dark-coloured sediments that are rich in organic matter.
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Swahili language
Swahili, also known as Kiswahili (translation: coast language), is a Bantu language and the first language of the Swahili people.
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Trophic state index
Trophic State Index (TSI) is a classification system designed to rate bodies of water based on the amount of biological activity they sustain.
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Tsunamis in lakes
A tsunami is defined as a series of water waves caused by the displacement of a large volume of a body of water, such as an ocean.
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Undescribed taxon
In taxonomy, an undescribed taxon is a taxon (for example, a species) that has been discovered, but not yet formally described and named.
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Virunga National Park
The Virunga National Park (Parc National des Virunga), formerly named Albert National Park, is a National Park that stretches from the Virunga Mountains in the south to the Rwenzori Mountains in the north, in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, bordering Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda and Rwenzori Mountains National Park and Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda.
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Volcano
A volcano is a rupture in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface.
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Watt
The watt (symbol: W) is a unit of power.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Kivu
