Albertine Rift Mountains

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The Albertine Rift Mountains are a biodiversity-rich mountain range in central Africa, renowned for their high levels of endemism and dense tropical montane forests.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
Albertine Rift 1
Albertine Rift Mountains canonical 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (52)

Predicate Object
instanceOf biodiversity hotspot ⓘ
mountain range ⓘ
biodiversityStatus global biodiversity hotspot ⓘ
biome afromontane forest ⓘ
tropical montane forest ⓘ
borders Lake Albert ⓘ
Lake Edward ⓘ
Lake Kivu ⓘ
Lake Tanganyika ⓘ
climate tropical montane ⓘ
contains Bwamba Mountains ⓘ
Bwindi highlands ⓘ
Itombwe Massif ⓘ
linked to: Itombwe Mountains

Kahuzi-Biéga highlands ⓘ
Kibira highlands ⓘ
Mahale Mountains region ⓘ
Nyungwe highlands ⓘ
Rwenzori Mountains ⓘ
Virunga Mountains ⓘ
country Burundi ⓘ
Democratic Republic of the Congo ⓘ
Rwanda ⓘ
Tanzania ⓘ
Uganda ⓘ
endemicSpeciesGroup Albertine Rift endemic amphibians ⓘ
Albertine Rift endemic birds ⓘ
Albertine Rift endemic plants ⓘ
fauna Grauer’s gorilla ⓘ
linked to: Gorilla

Ruwenzori turaco ⓘ
eastern chimpanzee ⓘ
linked to: Pan troglodytes

mountain gorilla ⓘ
okapi ⓘ
highestPoint Mount Stanley ⓘ
highestPointElevation 5109 m ⓘ
knownFor dense tropical montane forests ⓘ
high endemism ⓘ
high species richness ⓘ
threatened vertebrate species ⓘ
locatedIn Africa ⓘ
Central Africa ⓘ
partOf Albertine Rift ⓘ
East African Rift system ⓘ
linked to: East African Rift

Western Rift Valley ⓘ
linked to: Great Rift Valley
protectedArea Bwindi Impenetrable National Park ⓘ
Kahuzi-Biéga National Park ⓘ
Nyungwe National Park ⓘ
Rwenzori Mountains National Park ⓘ
Virunga National Park ⓘ
threat deforestation ⓘ
habitat fragmentation ⓘ
human population pressure ⓘ
UNESCOStatus contains multiple World Heritage Sites ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Afromontane forests → foundIn → Albertine Rift Mountains ⓘ
Mount Gahinga → partOf → Albertine Rift ⓘ
linked to: Albertine Rift Mountains