Marungu highlands
mountains in Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Marungu highlands are in the Tanganyika Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the west of the southern half of Lake Tanganyika.
Location
The highlands are divided by the Mulobozi River, which flow into the lake just north of Moba port.
The northern section reaches an altitude of 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) while the larger southern part reaches 2,460 metres (8,070 ft).
Mean annual rainfall is around 1,200 millimetres (47 in), mostly falling between October and April.
The soil is relatively low in nutrients.
A sublacustrine swell extends from the Marungu plateau under the southern basin of Lake Tanganyika, subdividing it into the Albertville and Zongwe basins. The Zongwe trough holds the deepest part of the lake, at 1,470 metres (4,820 ft) below the present lake level.
Alluvial cones from the rivers that drain the Marungu Plateau are present at the foot of the Zongwe trough, and there are many V-shaped valleys below the lake level.
These features indicate that during the Quaternary (2.588 million years ago to the present) the lake level varied greatly, at times being much lower than now.
The explorer Henry Morton Stanley noted this feature when he visited the region in his journey of 1874–77.
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