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	RUKWA - LoveToKnow Article on RUKWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The other chief feeder, the Songwe, rises in 9" 8' S., 33 30' E. on the same plateau as the Saisi and flows N.W., entering Rukwa at its S. end.
		about its mouth by the Rupa, whose head-waters are in the high-lying land N.E. of Rukwa.
		See also a notice by Eugene Asse prefixed to an edition 1890) of Rulhiere's Anecdotes sur le Marechal de Richelieu; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (vol.
	13.1911encyclopedia.org /R/RU/RUKWA.htm (776 words)

	Lake Rukwa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lake Rukwa is a lake in southwestern Tanzania.
		The alkaline Lake Rukwa lies midway between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa at an elevation of about 800 metres, in a parallel branch of the rift system.
		Lake Rukwa is 2,600 square kilometres in size.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lake_Rukwa (77 words)

	Colored Stone May/June 2003 - Rukwa: Tanzania's Unknown Gem Giant
		According to locals, the province of Rukwa in the southern highlands of Tanzania is rich in gemstones, with a lot of potential waiting to be tapped.
		The problem includes Rukwa's capital, Sumbawanga, where the regional commissioner's office is located, although the government is planning to install new digital phone systems in July 2003.
		The small miners in Rukwa are currently operating their mining business by trial and error; they need training to enable them know the industry properly.
	www.tucsonshowguide.com /stories/may03/tanzruby2.cfm (889 words)

	Colored Stone May/June 2003 - Tanzanian Ruby Find Brings Hope
		Rukwa is on the opposite side of the country from Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania; the distance from there to Sumbawanga is about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles), and Chala is 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Sumbawanga.
		Rukwa is the second-largest province in Tanzania, with an area of about 75,250 square kilometers (27,900 square miles).
		Outgoing Rukwa Regional Commissioner Jaka Mwambi emphasized that the Rukwa ruby miners' main obstacles to development include lack of a reliable market, modern mining equipment, training, transport, lapidary facilities, and capital and investors to operate joint-venture gem mining with the local miners.
	www.colored-stone.com /stories/may03/tanzruby.cfm (1387 words)

	Ethnologue report for Tanzania
		Rukwa Region, in the northwest corner of Mpanda District, south of the Nyamwezi, across the Ugalla River.
		Rukwa Region, Sumbawanga District, the southeastern shore and to the south of Lake Tanganyika.
		Rukwa Region, southeast corner of Sumbawanga District; Mbeya Region, southwest corner of Mbozi District, bordering to Zambia south of the Fipa.
	www.ethnologue.com /show_country.asp?name=Tanzania (4130 words)

	[Ganoksin] [Gemstones] - Tanzanian Ruby Find Brings Hope - [Colored Stone]
		High quality ruby is being mined in the province of Rukwa, in the southern highlands of Tanzania, according to local sources.
		Rukwa is on the opposite side of the country from Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania ; the distance from there to Sumbawanga is about 1,500 kilometers (930 miles), and Chala is 45 kilometers (28 miles) from Sumbawanga.
		Outgoing Rukwa Regional Commissioner Jaka Mwambi emphasized that the Rukwa ruby miners' main obstacles to development include lack of a reliable market, modem mining equipment, training, transport, lapidary facilities, and capital and investors to operate joint venture gem mining with the local miners.
	www.ganoksin.com /borisat/nenam/cs-03-tanzanian-ruby.htm (1432 words)

	LakeNet - Lakes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lake Rukwa lies in a tropical and wet ecoregion and has a large floodplain (about 1,300 square km) along the northern shore that is inundated during the rainy season.
		Lake Rukwa is an inland drainage sink in the southwest corner of Tanzania, with no outlets.
		Although the eastern side of the lake is backed up against the eastern side of the rift valley with deep water, the western shore of the lake is shallow and ideal crocodile habitat.
	www.worldlakes.org /lakedetails.asp?lakeid=8579 (330 words)

	Lake Rukwa, the fourth largest in Tanzania
		The Lake Rukwa was first visited by British explorer John Hanning Speke and followed by the noted Scottish geologist and explorer Joseph Thomson, who sow it from a distance in 1880.
		It is the forth largest lake in Tanzania located on the south-western regions of Rukwa and Mbeya.
		The shallow alkaline lake is cyclical in nature in terms of size which caused by the varying inflow of streams, for example, in some years in the past the lake shrank to a length of about 50 kilometers, years later it expanded to 135 kilometres long.
	www.utalii.com /Rukwa/Lake_Rukwa.htm (205 words)

	CNN.com - Powerful earthquake rocks southwestern Tanzania - October 2, 2000
		The quake, which occurred around the Kipili peninsula of Lake Tanganyika in the Rukwa region, 960 kilometers (595 miles) west of the capital Dar es Salaam, had a preliminary magnitude of 6.6, the U.S. Geological Society reported.
		Rukwa regional police chief Lameck Kebacho said the quake woke up residents in the region at 5:25 a.m.
		Most of the people living in Rukwa are either peasant farmers or fisherman who live in mud huts.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/africa/10/02/tanzania.earthquake.ap (348 words)

	VETIVER GRASS -- TERMINAL REPORT ON VETIVER TECHNOLOGY AND DEVELOPMENT IN TANZANIA
		The climax of Vetiver Technology promotion was at the time of the Presidential visit to Rukwa Region in which he himself participated in planting the grass and trees.
		On the other hand, GTZ, a German development agency which has been involved in Nutrition Programme in Rukwa Region, because the major distribution agent of the grass to its all farmers under their project, given their transport facilities to reach as far as possible all villages all over the Region.
		KAESO expects to raise funds from within in the near future by selling Vetiver splits and tree seedlings as opposed to the previous practise whereby Vetiver grass splits and tree seedlings were distributed free of charge.
	www.vetiver.com /TVN_KAESOrpt.htm (726 words)

	ISS002 Earth Sciences Results Briefing, 14 February, 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lake Shala is the southwesternmost; Abiyata and Langano are the central pair; and Ziway is the larger northeastern one.
		This is the first-ever, near-nadir photo of the junction of the Lake Tanganyika rift valley and the Lake Rukwa transform fault valley.
		Detailed near-nadir shots such as this one of NW Lake Rukwa provide fundamental data for mapping interfering faults in remote and commonly cloud-covered regions.
	earth.jsc.nasa.gov /debrief/ISS002/rift1.htm (374 words)

	Ruaha and Lake Rukwa, Tanzania
		But it is also the land of vast herds of buffalo, polka dot zebra and albino giraffe.
		At the heart of this vast southern region are four of the least visited and most exciting of the game parks in Africa: Ruaha, Lake Rukwa, the Selous and Mikumi.
		There are three towns that serve as jumping off points for the southern parks, Dodoma (the nominal capital of Tanzania), Iringa, and Mbeya.
	www.go2africa.com /Tanzania/ruaha-and-lake-rukwa (270 words)

	CFR Mbeya: Mbozi District
		CHUMWA RANGE and ISALALA are large hilly reserves situated within the Rukwa Trough, west of Mbeya city and northwest of Vwawa town, respectively.
		CHUMWA and ISALALA are large catchments for the oxygen depleted Lake Rukwa.
		The north boundary is accessed via the Itumbula-Kasamba road (turn west at the Itumbula salt works), between the villages of Mpapa and Masayinta.
	www.mckone.org /mbozi.html (3572 words)

	Lake Rukwa -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		Lake Rukwa -- Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
		"Rukwa, Lake." Britannica Concise Encyclopedia from Encyclopædia Britannica.
		More results on "Lake Rukwa" when you join.
	concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9377298?tocId=9377298 (983 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Physical Features The reserve includes floodplains along the south-west and north shores of Lake Rukwa in the rift valley.
		The lake is subject to cyclic floods and is presently at a very high level.
		Rodgers, W.A. Lake Rukwa Floods and Declining Wildlife Populations.
	sea.unep-wcmc.org /sites/pa/0396p.htm (171 words)

	Lake Rukwa, Tanzania
		: Tanzania : Ruaha And Lake Rukwa : Lake Rukwa
		Lake Rukwa (two lakes in the dry season) borders onto the Uwanda Game Reserve, and this writer has never met any other traveller who has been there.
		The only way to get there is with your own vehicle or public transport and you need to be totally self-sufficient.
	www.go2africa.com /Tanzania/ruaha-and-lake-rukwa/lake-rukwa (261 words)

	Lake Rukwa -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		It is part of an inland drainage system in the Rukwa Trough, which probably at one time belonged to the East African Rift Valley system of which Lake Nyasa is a part.
		The lake covers an area of about 1,000 square miles (2,600 square km) and lies midway between Lake Tanganyika and Lake Nyasa, at an elevation of about 2,600 feet (800 m); it has an average…
		"Rukwa, Lake." Encyclopædia Britannica from Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9064400?tocId=9064400 (910 words)

	Nicholas School -- Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences
		Rukwa Rift Transtensional Basin - Western Branch, East African Rift
		Extension and Subsidence Along a "Weak" Continental Transform: An Example From the Rukwa Rift, East Africa, Geology, v.
		Strike-Slip Kinematics of the Rukwa Rift, East Africa, American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting (San Francisco), Eos, v.
	www.nicholas.duke.edu /eos/solidearth/structgeo-rw.php (303 words)

	CFR Mbeya: Mbeya Rural District
		These three reserves are major contributors to lakes Nyasa and Rukwa, and in the case of MBEYA RANGE, to Mbeya city.
		Cultivation and dry season fires are a problem in MBEYA RANGE while illegal pitsawing, grazing and fuelwood gathering are common problems in MPOROTO RIDGE and, to a lesser extent, UMALILA.
		Lake Rukwa is their destination, via the Rukwa-Songwe River.
	www.mckone.org /mbeya.html (7580 words)

	Faculty \| Evolutionary Wing
		Teaching and research have taken me to the University of Nairobi (Population Studies and Research Institute), the University of Cambridge (Large Animal Research Group), the Serengeti Wildlife Research Institute, the University of Michigan (Evolution and Human Behavior Program) and the University of Bielefeld (Ziff).
		I have done fieldwork in Kenya (Kericho District) and Tanzania (Arusha and Rukwa Regions).
		I have three major interests: Human behavioural ecology (studying marriage, fertility, parental investment, resource use and demographic transition theory); the application of phylogenetic methods to the analysis of comparative questions in sociocultural anthropology; and conservation biology (particularly the interface between the social and natural sciences in the study of natural resource use);
	anthropology.ucdavis.edu /anthro/fprofile/facultyprofile_e.cfm?id=17 (250 words)

	GTZ Wildlife Programme in Tanzania, Katavi-Rukwa Conservation and Development Programme
		The Katavi National Park has been doubled in size to 4500 sq.km.
		It is situated in Mpanda District in Rukwa Region in the west of Tanzania close to the Lake Tanganyika.
		The game reserve extends from the eastern escarpment to the hilly central plateau and includes the northern part of Lake Rukwa.
	wildlife-programme.gtz.de /wildlife/krcd.html (643 words)

	TANZANET - The Tanzanian Electronic Networking Community - MIKOA YA DAR ES SALAAM, RUKWA YAANZISHWA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mikoa hiyo ni mkoa mpya wa Dar es Salaam, ambao kabla ya hapo ulikuwa ni wilaya katika mkoa wa Pwani.
		Mwingine ni mkoa wa Rukwa ambao kabla ya hapo ilikuwa ni wilaya katika mkoa wa Mbeya.
		Mkoa wa Rukwa sasa utakuwa na wilaya za Sumbawanga na Mpanda.
	www.tanzanet.org /article967.html (254 words)

	Lake Rukwa
		When the ground nuts failed to grow quite as was expected of them, my father,an engineer transferred to a new haulage company called Tanganyika Roadways.
		I have many happy memories of this period of my life (jiggers and all!) and particularly remember, whilst living in the old goldmining town of Chunya,going to a crocodile farm run by a Frenchman on Lake Rukwa which is mentioned on your site.
		In the dry season the tributaries dried up leaving pools in which the crocs.
	www.ntz.info /gen/n01594.html (279 words)

	Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Amphibius) In River., Katavi NP, Rukwa, Tanzania Photographic Print by Ariadne Van ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Amphibius) In River., Katavi NP, Rukwa, Tanzania Photographic Print by Ariadne Van Zandbergen at Art.com
		Digitally Printed on Archival Photographic Paper resulting in vivid, pure color and exceptional detail that is suitable for museum or gallery display
		Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus Amphibius) In River., Katavi NP, Rukwa, Tanzania
	www.art.com /asp/sp.asp?PD=10261082&RFID=346898&engine=sitematch (97 words)

	Occurrence Map List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		From the southwestern shore of Lake Rukwa, near Mu, Compatible with distributional range
		Lake Rukwa, North Basin, NNE of Sumbawanga, Kasisi
		From the southeastern shore of Lake Rukwa, near Mb, Compatible with distributional range
	www.fishbase.org /museum/OccurrencesList.cfm?id=11515 (169 words)

	OU-COM Department of Biomedical Sciences -- Patrick O'Connor
		Revised stratigraphy and age of the Red Sandstone Group in the Rukwa Rift Basin, Tanzania.
		O’Connor, P. Pulmonary Pneumaticity in the Postcranial Skeleton of Extant Birds: A Case Study Examining Anseriforms.
		New Cretaceous vertebrate fossil discoveries from the Red Sandstone Group, Rukwa Rift Basin, southwestern Tanzania.
	www.oucom.ohiou.edu /dbms-oconnor/publications.htm (677 words)

	Occurrence Map List (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Lake Rukwa, North Basin, NNE of Sumbawanga, a few
		Lake Rukwa, River entring lake at South East, Compatible with distributional range
		Lake Rukwa, North Basin, NNE of Sumbawanga, bought
	www.fishbase.org /museum/OccurrencesList.cfm?id=2040 (164 words)

	Lake Rukwa
		Freshwater Fish Species in Lake Rukwa Basin [East Africa]
		Fish Species in Lake Rukwa Basin Part of the western East Africa rift system.
		Cyprinidae, Raiamas moorii, Lake Rukwa minnow, Moore's minnow, native.
	www.mongabay.com /topics/Lake_Rukwa.htm (202 words)

	YoungAfrican.Com - Poor dog from Rukwa called "immigration" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		YoungAfrican.Com - Poor dog from Rukwa called "immigration"
		A magistrate in Rukwa, Tanzania, in March 1998, sentenced a dog to death and ordered it "to hang until it dies".
		The crime was that this dog had appropriated the name "Immigration", hence impersonifying a "highly respected and law-abiding" government department.
	www.youngafrican.com /yaforum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=275 (584 words)

	Kamusi - Search Results (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The results for 'rukwa' are displayed below in alphabetical order, so please do not assume that the first entry you see is the best result.
		If you have a good working knowledge of both Swahili and English, please use our simple Grouping Tool to better arrange these results.
		Matokeo kwa 'rukwa' yaonyeshwa kwa taratibu ya alfabeti.
	research.yale.edu /cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=rukwa&EngP=0 (122 words)

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