The Lendu Plateau is an area of high ground in the
Ituri Province
Ituri is one of the 21 new provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo created in the 2015 repartitioning. Ituri, Bas-Uele, Haut-Uele, and Tshopo provinces are the result of the dismemberment of the former Orientale province. Ituri was ...
of the
Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), colloquially "La RDC" ), informally Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, the DRC, the DROC, or the Congo, and formerly and also colloquially Zaire, is a country in ...
(DRC), on the northwest side of
Lake Albert.
Location
The Lendu plateau is roughly a rectangle 80 km long and 50 wide, with the long axis in the SW-NE direction. Its approximate corners are , 15 km south of
Droro, , 30 km west of
Djugu
Djugu is a town in the Ituri Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the administrative headquarters of Djugu Territory.
As of 2012 the population was estimated at 28,061.
References
Populated places in Ituri Province
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, , 30 km west of
Nebbi, and , 10 km south of
Niarembe. The northeast edge of the plateau roughly coincides with the DRC-
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa. The country is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the south by Tanzania. The south ...
border.
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Lendu Plateau
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Lendu Plateau
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Topography
The altitude of the plateau mostly varies between 1700 m and 2000 m. It rises towards the east to a set of mountains, the highest being
Mount Aboro
Mount is often used as part of the name of specific mountains, e.g. Mount Everest.
Mount or Mounts may also refer to:
Places
* Mount, Cornwall, a village in Warleggan parish, England
* Mount, Perranzabuloe, a hamlet in Perranzabuloe parish, ...
(, 2455 m).
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References
Geography of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
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