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Malagarasi River, the Glossary

The Malagarasi River is a river in western Tanzania, flowing through Kigoma Region, although one of its tributaries comes from southeastern Burundi.^[1]

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Burundi–Tanzania border
Central Zambezian miombo woodlands
Geography of Kigoma Region
Ramsar sites in Tanzania
Rivers of Burundi
Tributaries of Lake Tanganyika
Zambezian flooded grasslands

Africa

Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia.

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African bush elephant

The African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), also known as the African savanna elephant, is one of two extant African elephant species and one of three extant elephant species.

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Albizia gummifera

Albizia gummifera is a species of legume in the family Fabaceae, native to sub-saharan Africa and Madagascar, and naturalized in Brazil.

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Andropogon (common names: beard grass, bluestem grass, broomsedge) is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family, native to much of Asia, Africa, and the Americas, as well as Southern Europe and various oceanic islands.

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Biotope

A biotope is an area of uniform environmental conditions providing a living place for a specific assemblage of plants and animals.

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Borassus aethiopum

Borassus aethiopum is a species of Borassus palm from Africa.

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Brachystegia spiciformis

Brachystegia spiciformis, commonly known as zebrawood, or msasa, is a medium-sized African tree having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.

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Bridelia micrantha

Bridelia micrantha, the mitzeeri or the coastal golden-leaf, is a tree in the family Phyllanthaceae and is native to tropical and southern Africa as well as to the island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean.

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Burundi

Burundi, officially the Republic of Burundi, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa.

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Central African slender-snouted crocodile

The Central African slender-snouted crocodile (Mecistops leptorhynchus) is one of two species of crocodiles in the genus Mecistops.

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Central Zambezian miombo woodlands

The Central Zambezian miombo woodlands ecoregion spans southern central Africa.

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Congo River

The Congo River, formerly also known as the Zaire River, is the second-longest river in Africa, shorter only than the Nile, as well as the third-largest river in the world by discharge volume, following the Amazon and Ganges rivers. It is the world's deepest recorded river, with measured depths of around. Malagarasi River and Congo River are international rivers of Africa.

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Cyperus papyrus

Cyperus papyrus, better known by the common names papyrus, papyrus sedge, paper reed, Indian matting plant, or Nile grass, is a species of aquatic flowering plant belonging to the sedge family Cyperaceae.

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Dark stonebasher

The dark stonebasher (Pollimyrus nigricans) is a species of ray-finned fish in the family Mormyridae.

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Digitaria

Digitaria is a genus of plants in the grass family native to tropical and warm temperate regions but can occur in tropical, subtropical, and cooler temperate regions as well.

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Diospyros mespiliformis

Diospyros mespiliformis, the jackalberry (also known as African ebony and by its Afrikaans name jakkalsbessie), is a large dioecious evergreen tree found mostly in the savannas of Africa.

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Echinochloa

Echinochloa is a very widespread genus of plants in the grass family and tribe Paniceae.

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Echinochloa pyramidalis

Echinochloa pyramidalis is a species of large grass, occurring naturally in flooded regions and beside lakes in tropical Africa and America, and introduced to various other countries.

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Endorheic basin

An endorheic basin (also endoreic basin and endorreic basin) is a drainage basin that normally retains water and allows no outflow to other, external bodies of water (e.g. rivers and oceans); instead, the water drainage flows into permanent and seasonal lakes and swamps that equilibrate through evaporation.

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Eragrostis

Eragrostis is a large and widespread genus of plants in the grass family, found in many countries on all inhabited continents and many islands.

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Ferry

A ferry is a boat that transports passengers, and occasionally vehicles and cargo, across a body of water.

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Ficus sycomorus

Ficus sycomorus, called the sycamore fig or the fig-mulberry (because the leaves resemble those of the mulberry), sycamore, or sycomore, is a fig species that has been cultivated since ancient times.

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Ficus verruculosa

Ficus verruculosa, the water fig, is a species of fig from sub-saharan Africa.

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Geita Region

Geita Region (Mkoa wa Geita in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Google Maps

Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google.

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Great Rift Valley

The Great Rift Valley (Bonde la ufa) is a series of contiguous geographic depressions, approximately in total length, that runs from Lebanon in Asia to Mozambique in Southeast Africa.

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Great Ruaha River

The Great Ruaha River is a river in south-central Tanzania that flows through the Usangu wetlands and the Ruaha National Park east into the Rufiji River. Malagarasi River and Great Ruaha River are rivers of Tanzania.

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Henry Morton Stanley

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (born John Rowlands; 28 January 1841 – 10 May 1904) was a Welsh-American explorer, journalist, soldier, colonial administrator, author and politician who was famous for his exploration of Central Africa and his search for missionary and explorer David Livingstone.

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Hippopotamus

The hippopotamus (hippopotamuses or hippopotami; Hippopotamus amphibius), also shortened to hippo (hippos), further qualified as the common hippopotamus, Nile hippopotamus, or river hippopotamus, is a large semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Hyparrhenia

Hyparrhenia is a genus of grasses.

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Hyparrhenia rufa

Hyparrhenia rufa is a species of grass known by the common names jaraguá, FAO.

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Ilagala

Ilagala is an administrative ward in Uvinza District of Kigoma Region in Tanzania.

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Isoberlinia

Isoberlinia is a genus in the family Fabaceae of five species of tree native to the hotter parts of tropical Africa.

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Julbernardia globiflora

Julbernardia globiflora is a tropical African tree widespread at moderate altitudes in Miombo woodland to the south and east of the equatorial forest region of the Congo basin.

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Kagera Region

Kagera Region (Mkoa wa Kagera in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Khaya senegalensis

Khaya senegalensis is a species of tree in the Meliaceae family that is native to Africa.

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Kigoma

Kigoma is a city and lake port in Kigoma-Ujiji District in Tanzania, on the northeastern shores of Lake Tanganyika and close to the border with Burundi and The Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Kigoma Region

Kigoma Region (Mkoa wa Kigoma in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Lake Rukwa

Lake Rukwa is an endorheic lake located the Rukwa Valley of Rukwa Region, Songwe Region and Katavi Region in southwestern Tanzania.

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Lake Tanganyika

Lake Tanganyika (Ikiyaga ca Tanganyika) is an African Great Lake. Malagarasi River and Lake Tanganyika are Burundi–Tanzania border.

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Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria is one of the African Great Lakes.

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Malagarasi sardine

The Malagarasi sardine (Engraulicypris spiniferRiddin, M.A., Bills, I.R. & Villet, M.H. (2016): ZooKeys, 641: 121–150. or Mesobola spinifer) is an East African species of freshwater fish in the family Cyprinidae.

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Mbu pufferfish

The Mbu pufferfish, also known as Mbuna pufferfish, giant pufferfish, or giant freshwater pufferfish (Tetraodon mbu), is a carnivorous freshwater pufferfish originating from the middle and lower sections of the Congo River in Africa, as well as the east coast of Lake Tanganyika near the Malagarasi River mouth.

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Missionary

A missionary is a member of a religious group who is sent into an area in order to promote its faith or provide services to people, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care, and economic development.

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Nyamwezi people

The Nyamwezi, or Wanyamwezi, are one of the Bantu groups of East Africa.

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Oryza barthii

Oryza barthii, also called Barth's rice, wild rice, or African wild rice, is a grass in the rice genus Oryza.

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Parkia filicoidea

Parkia filicoidea, or African locust bean ('filicoidea' - fern-like foliage), is a large, spreading flat-crowned tree to 30 metres tall, the bole of which may be narrowly buttressed to a height of about 3 metres, and up to 120 cm DBH.

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Phoenix reclinata

Phoenix reclinata (reclinata - Latin, reclining), the wild date palm or Senegal date palm, is a species of flowering plant in the palm family native to tropical Africa, the Arabian Peninsula and Madagascar.

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Ramsar Convention

The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands of International Importance Especially as Waterfowl Habitat is an international treaty for the conservation and sustainable use of Ramsar sites (wetlands).

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Rosemary Lowe-McConnell

Rosemary Helen Lowe-McConnell (née Rosemary Helen Lowe; 24 June 1921 – 22 December 2014) was an English ichthyologist, ecologist, and limnologist known for research on tilapia and aquaculture.

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Rufiji River

The Rufiji River lies entirely within Tanzania. Malagarasi River and Rufiji River are rivers of Tanzania.

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Setaria

Setaria is a widespread genus of plants in the grass family.

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Shoebill

The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex), also known as the whalebill, whale-headed stork, and shoe-billed stork, is a large long-legged wading bird.

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Sitatunga

The sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii) or marshbuck is a swamp-dwelling medium-sized antelope found throughout central Africa, centering on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Republic of the Congo, Cameroon, parts of Southern Sudan, Equatorial Guinea, Burundi, Ghana, Botswana, Rwanda, Zambia, Gabon, the Central African Republic, Tanzania, Uganda and Kenya.

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Southern Eastern Rift

The Southern Eastern Rift is a freshwater ecoregion in Kenya and Tanzania.

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Sporobolus

Sporobolus is a nearly cosmopolitan genus of plants in the grass family.

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Syzygium cordatum

Syzygium cordatum is an evergreen, water-loving tree, which grows to a height of 8–15 m. This tree is often found near streams, on forest margins or in swampy spots.

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Tabora Region

Tabora Region (Mkoa wa Tabora in Swahili) is one of Tanzania's 31 administrative regions.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania, (formerly Swahililand) is a country in East Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Themeda

Themeda is a genus of plants in the grass family native to Asia, Africa, Australia, and Papuasia.

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Themeda triandra

Themeda triandra is a species of C4 perennial tussock-forming grass widespread in Africa, Australia, Asia and the Pacific.

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University of Arizona

The University of Arizona (Arizona, U of A, UArizona, or UA) is a public land-grant research university in Tucson, Arizona.

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Uvinza

Uvinza is one of the eight administrative districts of Kigoma Region in Tanzania.

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Vinza people

The Vinza (Wavinza in Swahili) are a Bantu ethnic and linguistic group based in Uvinza District of Kigoma Region, Tanzania.

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Vossia cuspidata

Vossia is a monotypic genus in the grass family, found in Asia and Africa. The only known species is Vossia cuspidata, an aquatic grass native to Africa (from Senegal to Egypt, Somalia, south to Namibia), and to Assam, Bangladesh, and northern Indochina. The common name is hippo grass. It is a thick-stemmed, hairy, perennial, emergent, freshwater aquatic grass that can grow in dense stands in waters up to 5.5 metres in depth.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malagarasi_River

Also known as Malagarasi-Moyowosi, Malagarasi-Muyovozi Wetlands, Malagarasi-Muyovozi floodplain.

, Rufiji River, Setaria, Shoebill, Sitatunga, Southern Eastern Rift, Sporobolus, Syzygium cordatum, Tabora Region, Tanzania, Themeda, Themeda triandra, University of Arizona, Uvinza, Vinza people, Vossia cuspidata, Waterbuck, Wattled crane, Zambezian flooded grasslands.

Malagarasi River, the Glossary

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See also

Burundi–Tanzania border

Central Zambezian miombo woodlands

Geography of Kigoma Region

Ramsar sites in Tanzania

Rivers of Burundi

Tributaries of Lake Tanganyika

Zambezian flooded grasslands

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