Lakes Victoria, Kyoga and Albert: a hydrometeorological survey
The Project for the Hydrometeorological Survey of the Catchments of Lakes Victoria, Kyogaand Albert is one of the Jargest of its kind, intended to arrange for the collection of data for a comprehensivestudy of the water balance of the Upper Nile Basin in East Africa.With a surface area of about 69,000 sq. kms., Lake Victoria is the second largest freshwaterlake in the world, (next to Lake Superior), lying astride the Equator within the countries of Uganda,Kenya and Tanzania. Lakes Kyoga and Albert downstream have areas of 6,300 sq. kms. and 5,300sq. kms. respectively. The area of the catchment as a whole is approximately 378,000 sq. kms., ofwhich about 325,000 sq., kms, are in the three East African countries, while the remainder lies inthe Rwanda, Burundi and the Congo. The White Nile, fed and regulated by these lakes, flows out ofUganda into the Sudan, and thence, after being joined by the Blue Nile, into the United ArabRepublic.
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| Format: | monograph biblioteca |
| Language: | English |
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Entebbe, Uganda
1968
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| Subjects: | Fisheries, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1834/34671 |
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