Murchison Falls

Murchison Falls
General information
Fadi	7 m
Suna bayan	Roderick Murchison, 1st Baronet (en)
Labarin ƙasa
Tsarin Daidaiton Labarin Kasa	2°16′38″N 31°41′00″E
Bangare na	White Nile (en)
Kasa	Uganda
Territory	Uganda
Protected area (en)	Murchison Falls National Park (en)
Hydrography (en)
Ruwan ruwa	Nile basin (en)

Murchison Falls, wanda kuma aka fi sani da Kabalega Falls, wani magudanar,ruwa ne tsakanin tafkin Kyoga da tafkin Albert akan kogin Victoria Nile a Uganda. A saman Murchison Falls, kogin Nilu ya tilasta hanyarsa ta rata a cikin duwatsu, 7 metres (23 ft) kawai fadi, da tumbles 43 metres (141 ft), kafin ya kwarara zuwa yamma zuwa tafkin Albert. Mashigar tafkin Victoria tana aika kusan mita cubic 300 a sakan ɗaya (11,000 ft³/s) na ruwa a kan faɗuwar, an matse shi cikin kwazazzabo ƙasa da 10 metres (33 ft) faɗi.

Wasu masana tarihi sun yi imanin cewa wata ƙungiya ta sojojin Romawa,da Nero,ya aika ta yiwu ta kai ga Murchison Falls a shekara ta 61 AD, amma akwai babban gardama game da yuwuwar abin da zai kasance nasara mai,wahala.

Samuel Baker da Florence Baker su ne Turawa na farko da suka gan su. Baker ya ba su sunan Roderick Murchison, Shugaban Royal Geographical Society . Faduwar ta ba da sunansu ga wurin shakatawa na Murchison Falls .

A lokacin mulkin Idi Amin a shekarun 1970, an canza sunan zuwa Kabalega Falls, bayan da Omukama (Sarki) Kabalega na Bunyoro, duk da cewa ba a taba yin hakan ba bisa ka'ida. Sunan ya koma Murchison Falls bayan faduwar Amin. Har yanzu ana kiranta da Kabalega Falls.

Ernest Hemingway ya yi karo da wani jirgin sama daga Murchison Falls a 1954. A watan Agustan shekarar 2019, Uganda ta ki amincewa da wani aikin samar da wutar lantarki da kamfanin Bonang Power and Energy na Afirka ta Kudu ya yi, domin kiyaye faduwar ruwa, ɗaya daga cikin wuraren yawon bude ido da ke samun riba a kasar.

Duba kuma

• Jerin magudanan ruwa ta yawan kwarara
• Murchison Falls National Park
• Para

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