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.

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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 Impenetrable National Park
surface form: Bwindi highlands

Itombwe Mountains
surface form: Itombwe Massif

Kahuzi-Biéga highlands
Kibira highlands
Mahale Mountains National Park
surface form: Mahale Mountains region

Nyungwe National Park
surface form: 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 Gorilla
surface form: Grauer’s gorilla

Ruwenzori turaco
Pan troglodytes
surface form: eastern chimpanzee

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
surface form: East African Rift system

Great Rift Valley
surface form: Western Rift Valley
protectedArea Bwindi Impenetrable National Park
Kahuzi-Biega National Park
surface form: 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

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Afromontane forests foundIn Albertine Rift Mountains