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Zigi River

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

Zigi River also known as Sigi River (Swahili: Mto Sigi), is a river in located in east Tanga Region in Tanzania. The river rises in the Amani Nature Reserve in the east Usambara Mountains in Muheza District, more precisely in Handei Mountains, at an altitude of 1130 meters and flows for 100 km in a long course and multiple changes of direction to its mouth 40 km north of the town of Tanga in the Indian Ocean. Its tributaries are the Kihuhui (from south) and the Musi (from North).

Flows through: Tanzania.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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