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Virunga Landscape
Learn more about the Virunga Landscape:
State of the Forest Report 2006
State of the Forest Report 2005
The Landscape in brief
Coordinates: 1°1’29’’N – 1°44’21’’S – 28°56’11’’E –
30°5’2’’E.
Area: 15,155 km²
Elevation: 680–5,119 m
Terrestrial ecoregions: Ecoregion of the Afroalpine barrens of
Ruwenzori-Virunga, Ecoregion of the Afromontane forests of the
Albertine Rift, Ecoregion of the forest-savannah mosaic of Lake
Victoria
Aquatic ecoregions: Mountains of the Albertine Rift, Lakes Kivu,
Edward, George and Victoria
Protected areas:
Virunga National Park, DRC, 772,700 ha, 1925
Volcans National Park, Rwanda, 16,000 ha, 1925
Rutshuru Hunting Domain, DRC, 64,200 ha, 1946
