Murchison Falls

The Murchison Falls ( formerly known as Kaba Lega Falls) are located on the Victoria Nile in northwestern Uganda ( East Africa).

There they are in the Murchison Falls National Park between Lake Albert and Lake Victoria. The main cases consist of a seven -meter-wide gorge, whose upper edges are overgrown by trees, where the Nile rushes 42 yards in depth, the side cases consist of several cascades with a maximum depth of 28 m. Fall per second 300 cubic meters over the falls.

Many fish do not survive the fall over the falls on the rocks below, so that at the foot of the waterfall, a large number of crocodiles is, according to ( unconfirmed ) local to the park headquarters, the largest crocodile population of Uganda.

1864 was Samuel White Baker and his future wife Florence the first Europeans described on their journey of discovery along the White Nile cases.

The quote The most spectacular to happen to the nile on its journey to the Mediterranean ( The most spectacular thing happens the Nile on its journey to the Mediterranean ) is attributed to Winston Churchill.

The falls were named after Roderick Murchison, President of the Geological Society of London and the Royal Geographical Society.

Kabalega Falls

Kabalega Falls from 1972 to 1990, the official name of the falls. The name goes back to a decree of the dictator Idi Amin, who thus wanted to contribute to Africanization of the place names plus the names of Chwa II Kabalega, one of the last kings of Bunyoro related. The name was not accepted by the local population, so that after the end of the dictatorship again the old name Murchison Falls was valid.