Koko River
Location
CountryRwanda
DistrictRutsiro District
Physical characteristics
Mouth 
  coordinates
1°59′29″S 29°21′18″E / 1.991504°S 29.354997°E / -1.991504; 29.354997
Basin features
River systemLake Kivu
Tributaries 
  leftRwishwa River

The Koko River is a river in the Rutsiro District of western Rwanda that flows into Lake Kivu.

It is one of the main rivers draining the western Rwandan mountains into Lake Kivu, the other being the Sebeya River.[1] During the colonial era the river defined the boundary between the Kibuye and Gisenyi Prefectures.[2] The settlements of Gasiza and Murunda are close to the Koko's convergence with the Rwishwa River.[3]

References

Citations

Sources

  • "National Nile Basin Water Quality Monitoring Baseline Report for Rwanda" (PDF). Nile Basin Initiative. 2005. pp. 7–8. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  • Newbury, Catherine (1988). The Cohesion of Oppression: Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda 1860-1960. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-06256-5. Retrieved 2013-04-03.
  • "Rutsiro Administrative Map" (PDF). National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2012-11-13. Retrieved 2013-04-03.


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