Africa's Great Rift ValleySpanning some 3500 miles of the African continent, from Ethiopia in the north to Mozambique in the south, the Great Rift Valley is home to an astounding array of flora and fauna, including a great concentration of glassland animals amd three of the world's four great apes: the chimpanzee, bonobo and gorilla. |
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Afar Africa's Great Rift Aksum alkaline ancient Bantu basin Bunyoro Burton camels cattle central century Chewa church cichlid climate Congo DRC crater Djibouti earth East Africa eastern Eritrea eruptions Escarpment Ethiopia Ethiopian Orthodox explorer faulting feet fertile fish forest fossil geographic Gorge gorilla Gregory Rift Hadzabe herds Horn of Africa human hunter-gatherers Kamurasi Kenya Konso Lake Albert Lake Assal Lake Baringo Lake Bogoria Lake Malawi Lake Naivasha Lake Natron Lake Tanganyika Lake Turkana lake's land largest lava livestock living Livingstone Maasai Magadi miles million years ago missionary National Park Ngorongoro Highlands Nile nomadic northern Tanzania Ol doinyo Lengai OPPOSITE plains population pygmies rain rainforest region Rift system Rift Valley rise rock Rwanda Rwenzori Mountains shallow Shire River slopes soil southern end southwest Uganda species Speke Stanley Tanzania thousand traditional trees tribe trough tsetse Uganda vegetation Virunga volcanic warriors Western Rift Zambezi