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Rutshuru River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Rutshuru River (Rivière Rutshuru) is a river in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo that drains Lake Mutanda in the foothills of the Virunga Mountains in Uganda, flowing northward into Lake Rutanzige (formerly Lake Edward). For most of its length it runs through the Rutshuru Territory in North Kivu province.

Flows through: Democratic Republic of the Congo.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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