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Mountains of East Africa

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Amba Farit

Amba Farit (also Monte Amba Farit, Mount Amba Ferit) is a mountain in the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, near Koso Beret and T'ire Neza. GeoNames lists 3,824 m at 10.93333 N, 38.96667 E; other sources give 3,975 to 4,270 m.

Fentale

Fentale (Fantale) is a 2,007 m stratovolcano with a 2.5 x 4.5 km caldera at the north end of Ethiopia's Main Ethiopian Rift; last erupted 1789 CE, with major 2015 and 2024-2025 dyke intrusions and earthquake swarms.

Gara Muleta

Gara Muleta (Gaara Muldhataa, Gara Mullata) is a flat-summit mountain in East Hararghe, Oromia, Ethiopia, about 3,405 m high, source of Ramis, Mojo, and Gobele rivers and site of Gara Muleta Forest.

Gugu

Gugu (Gamsari, Monte Gugu), a 3,623 m mountain in Arsi Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia, at 8°12′N 39°58′E, part of the Gugu and Chillalo massifs of the Arsi plateau; its afro-alpine Gugu Mountain Ranges lost over half their habitat between 1989 and 2019. Distinct from Mount Gugu in Gamo Zone.

Karisimbi

Karisimbi, also Mount Karisimbi, is the tallest Virunga stratovolcano on the DR Congo-Rwanda border, about 4,490-4,507 m, highest point of Rwanda, dormant since roughly 8050 BCE with potassic basanite-to-trachyte lavas.

Kimhandu

Kimhandu (Kimhondu), highest peak of Tanzania's Uluguru Mountains and the Eastern Arc chain, about 2,634-2,653 m; local name Nongwe; distinct from an 806 m hill of the same name in Singisa.

Meru

Meru (Mount Meru), active stratovolcano in northern Tanzania's East African Rift near Arusha; 4,550-4,566 m, second highest in Tanzania; last erupted 1910 from Ash Cone; breached caldera and Momella debris avalanche about 7,800 years ago.

Mont Mohi

Mont Mohi is a 3,480 m peak of the Mitumba mountains in Mwenga Territory, South Kivu, DR Congo, about 1,500 km east of Kinshasa; also called bibandabanda, with 1,589 m prominence.

Mount Batu

Mount Batu, 4,307 m, a high peak of the Bale Mountains in Oromia, Ethiopia, within Bale Mountains National Park near the Sanetti Plateau and Harenna Forest; distinct from Indonesian and Malaysian peaks of the same name.

Mount Elgon

Mount Elgon: extinct shield volcano on the Uganda–Kenya border, oldest in East Africa at about 24 million years, Wagagai summit 4,321 m, 8 km caldera, transboundary UNESCO biosphere reserve since 2023.

Mount Heha

Mount Heha, Burundi's highest named mountain at 2,670 m (some sources 2,684 m), a broad grassland summit in the Burundi Highlands near Mukike, about 20 km east of Lake Tanganyika, climbed as a guided hike.

Mount Loolmalasin

Mount Loolmalasin, also spelled Loolmalassin, is a composite volcano in Tanzania's Ngorongoro Conservation Area, commonly ranked the country's third-highest mountain after Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru.

Mount Satima

Mount Satima (Lesatima, Ol Donyo Lesatima, "Mountain of the Bull Calf") is a 4,001 m volcanic peak at the northern end of Kenya's Aberdare Range, the range's highest point and Kenya's third-highest mountain, in Aberdare National Park.

Mount Stanley

Mount Stanley, highest massif of Uganda's Rwenzori Mountains (Mountains of the Moon) on the DRC border; Margherita Peak, 5,109 m, is Africa's third-highest summit, first climbed by the Duke of the Abruzzi in 1906.

Mousa Alli

Mousa Alli (Moussa Alli, Musa Ali) is a large Holocene trachytic-to-rhyolitic stratovolcano with a summit caldera on the Ethiopia-Eritrea-Djibouti tripoint in the Afar Rift; no confirmed historical eruptions, elevation about 1,993-2,028 m.

Mtorwi

Mtorwi is a 2,961 m mountain in the Kipengere Range, on the eastern side of Kitulo National Park, Makete District, Njombe Region, Tanzania; Tanzania's 7th listed summit, reached by trail from the Nhumbe valley.

Ras Dashen

Ras Dashen (Ras Dejen, ራስ ደጀን), Ethiopia's highest mountain in the Simien Mountains, Amhara Region; elevation disputed at 4,533-4,550 m, ultra-prominent peak, non-technical 6-10 day trek.

Rungwe

Rungwe is an active stratovolcano in southwestern Tanzania near Lake Malawi, rising about 2,950 m and last erupting around 1250 CE, the southernmost volcano in the East African Rift System.

Shimbiris

Shimbiris (Shimber Berris), highest mountain of Somalia and Somaliland at 2,460 m (older sources 2,416 m), in the Cal Madow/Golis range of Sanaag near Erigavo; distinct from a well named Shimbibiris in Togdheer.

Talo

Talo is the name of several places, chiefly a mountain in Amhara, Ethiopia (2,623 m per GeoNames; 4,413 m per Natural Earth), an intermittent stream in Oromia, and villages in Indonesia, Mali, and Russia.