List of rivers of Tanzania
Encyclopedia
This is a list of river
s in Tanzania
arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
An alphabetical overview of rivers of Tanzania is given below this list.
Endorheic
- Wembere River
River
A river is a natural watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, a lake, a sea, or another river. In a few cases, a river simply flows into the ground or dries up completely before reaching another body of water. Small rivers may also be called by several other names, including...
s in Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...
arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name.
An alphabetical overview of rivers of Tanzania is given below this list.
East Coast
- Umba RiverUmba River (Tanzania)The Umba River is located in northeastern Tanzania in Tanga Region. It rises in Schageiuforest in the West Usambara Mountains at 2,000 m altitude and flows on the north side of the mountain range to the east. At Lelwa empties the Mbalamu River who comes from the extreme north of the Usambara...
basin
- Sigi River basin
- Pangani RiverPangani RiverThe Pangani River is a major river of northeastern Tanzania, which rises in Kilimanjaro, passes through Lake Jipe, and empties into the Indian Ocean at the town of Pangani...
basin- Kolungazao River
- Saunyi River
- Kikuletwa River
- Msangasi River basin
- Migasi River basin
- Wami RiverWami RiverThe Wami River lies entirely within the African nation of Tanzania in the Pwani Region and Morogoro Region in eastern Tanzania. Its source is specified in the Kaguru Mountains and it flows East entering the Indian Ocean west of Zanzibar. But its catchment area extends from the Kinyasangwe River to...
basin- Lukigura River
- Kiseru River
- Mkundi River
- Tani River
- Mkata River
- Mkondoa River
- Miyombo River
- Ruvu River basin
- Mkombezi River
- Mbiki River
- Musa River
- Ngereugere River
- Mgeta River
- Rufiji RiverRufiji RiverThe Rufiji River lies entirely within the African nation of Tanzania. The river is formed by the convergence of the Kilombero and Luwegu rivers. It is approximately 600 km long, with its source in southwestern Tanzania and its mouth on the Indian Ocean at a point between Mafia Island called Mafia...
basin- Lungonya River
- Great Ruaha RiverGreat Ruaha RiverThe Great Ruaha River is a river in south-central Tanzania that flows through the Usangu wetlands and the Ruaha National Park east into the Rufiji River...
- Lukosi River
- Mbungu River
- Kizigo River
- Njombe River
- Little Ruaha River
- Kimbi River
- Mbarali River
- Luwegu River
- Ulanga RiverUlanga RiverThe Ulanga River, also known as the Kilombero River, is a river that starts in the southwest of Tanzania on the eastern slope of the East African Rift that flows northeast into the Rufiji River then to the Indian Ocean.-Geology:...
(Kilombero)- KihansiKihansi DamKihansi Dam is a hydroelectric dam located on the Kihansi River at the end of the Kihansi Gorge before the convergence with the Ulanga River in Tanzania approximately 450 km southwest of the capital Dar Es Salaam.-Kihansi Dam:...
- Luhombero River
- Msolwa River
- Ruipa River
- Mnyera River
- Ruhudji River
- Kihansi
- Matandu River basin
- Mavuji River basin
- Mbwemkuru River basin
- Lukuledi River basin
- Ruvuma RiverRuvuma RiverRuvuma River, formerly also known as the Rovuma River, is a river in East Africa, forming during the greater part of its course the border between Tanzania and Mozambique . It is long, with a drainage basin in size...
basin- Lukwika River
- Muhuwezi River
- Msinejewe River
- Lukumbule River
- Msangesi River
- Njuga River
Nile basin
- Lake VictoriaLake VictoriaLake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes. The lake was named for Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, by John Hanning Speke, the first European to discover this lake....
- Mori River
- Mara RiverMara RiverThe Mara River is a river in Africa, flowing through Kenya and Tanzania, and lies across the migration path of ungulates in the Serengeti/Masai Mara game reserves....
- Ruwana River
- Simiyu River
- Isanga River
- Kagera RiverKagera RiverThe Kagera River, also Akagera River, is an East African river, forming part of the upper headwaters of the Nile and carrying water from its most distant source....
Congo Basin
- Lake TanganyikaLake TanganyikaLake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...
- Malagarasi RiverMalagarasi RiverThe Malagarasi River is Tanzania's second longest river. It empties into the eastern side of Lake Tanganyika about 25 miles south of Kigoma, and is one of the lake's primary inflows. The Malagarasi pre-dates Lake Tanganyika and was formerly a tributary of the Congo River to its west...
- Rufugu River
- Luegele River
- Luega River
- Msenguse River
- Ifume River
- Luamfi River
- Loasi River
- Kalambo RiverKalambo RiverThe Kalambo River forms part of the border between Zambia and Tanzania. It is a comparatively small stream which rises in the highlands north-east of Mbala at an elevation of about 1800 m and descends into the Eastern Great Rift Valley, entering the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika at an...
- Malagarasi River
EndorheicEndorheicAn endorheic basin is a closed drainage basin that retains water and allows no outflow to other bodies of water such as rivers or oceans...
basins
- Lake RukwaLake RukwaLake Rukwa is a lake in southwestern Tanzania. The alkaline Lake Rukwa lies midway between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa at an elevation of about 800 metres, in a parallel branch of the rift system. The lake has seen large fluctuations in its size over the years, due to varying inflow of streams...
basin- Kavuu River
- Rungwa River
- Zira River
- Songwe River
- Momba River
- Saisi River
- Lake NatronLake NatronLake Natron is a salt lake located in northern Tanzania, close to the Kenyan border, in the eastern branch of Africa's Great Rift Valley. The lake is fed by the Ewaso Ng'iro River but also by mineral-rich hot springs and is quite shallow, less than three meters deep, and varies in width depending...
basin
- Lake ManyaraLake ManyaraLake Manyara is a shallow lake in the Natron-Manyara-Balangida branch of the Great Rift Valley in Tanzania. Said by Ernest Hemingway to be the "loveliest [lake] .....
basin
- Lake EyasiLake EyasiLake Eyasi is a seasonal shallow endorheic salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau, just south of the Serengeti National Park and immediately southwest of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands of Tanzania...
basin- Sibiti RiverSibiti RiverThe Sibiti River is a seventy-five-kilometre waterway which connects Lake Eyasi and Lake Kitangari, and one of the few non-man-made canals in the world.Both Lakes Eyasi and Kitangari are located south from The Serengeti National Park, Tanzania....
- Sibiti River
- Bubu River basin
W
Wami RiverWami River
The Wami River lies entirely within the African nation of Tanzania in the Pwani Region and Morogoro Region in eastern Tanzania. Its source is specified in the Kaguru Mountains and it flows East entering the Indian Ocean west of Zanzibar. But its catchment area extends from the Kinyasangwe River to...
- Wembere River
Wembere River
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