Dutsen Elgon

Dutsen Elgon wani dutse ne mai fitar da wuta a kan iyakar Uganda da Kenya,  arewacin Kisumu, gabashin Mbale da yammacin Kitale . Babban matsayi na dutsen, mai suna "Wagagai", yana cikin Uganda. Kodayake babu wata shaida da za a iya tabbatar da ita game da aikin dutsen wuta na farko, masu ilimin ƙasa sun kiyasta cewa Dutsen Elgon yana da akalla shekaru miliyan 24, yana mai da shi tsohuwar dutsen wuta da aka sani a Gabashin Afirka. Sunan dutsen ya samo asali ne daga sunan Maasai, "Ol Doinyo Ilgoon" (Dutse na Breast). 

 Yanayin jiki 
Dutsen Elgon wani katon dutse ne mai aman wuta a kan iyakar gabashin Uganda da yammacin Kenya.  Tsayinsa mai faɗi, kilomita 80 (50 mi) a diamita, ya haura mita 3,070 (10,070 ft) sama da filayen kewaye.  Tsayinsa mai sanyi yana ba ɗan adam jinkiri daga filayen zafi a ƙasa, kuma tsayinsa mafi tsayi yana ba da mafaka ga flora da fauna..

Mt. Elgon ya ƙunshi manyan tsaunuka biyar:

 Wagagai (mita 4,321 (14,177 ), a Uganda
 Sudek (mita 4,302 (14,114 ) a kan iyakar Kenya / Uganda
 Koitobos (mita 4,222 (13,852 ), wani shafi na basalt mai laushi a Kenya
 Mubiyi (mita 4,211 (13,816 ) a Uganda
 Masaba (mita 4,161 (13,652 ) a Uganda

Sauran fasalulluka na bayanin kula sune:

 Caldera - Elgon's yana daya daga cikin manyan calderas a duniya.
 Ƙananan craters zuwa Kudu maso Yamma: Dukkanin kusan kilomita 25 a fadin, Bududa, da zoben Manafwa sun haɗu da caldera kuma Bububo tare da tsakiya na tsakiya yana zaune a gefen sa. Ƙananan Tororo yana nuna fili kusan kilomita 50 daga saman Elgon.

 Maɓuɓɓugar ruwa masu dumi a gefen Kogin Suam 
 Endebess Bluff (mita 2,563 (mita 8,409 ) 
 Ngwarisha, Makingeny, Chepnyalil, da kogon Kitum: kogon Kituma yana da faɗin mita 60 (200  kuma yana shiga mita 200 (660  cikin dutsen. Kwarin yana dauke da gishiri kuma giwaye na daji suna yawan zuwa da shi waɗanda ke cinye gishiri da aka fallasa ta hanyar cire ganuwar da ƙashin su. Littafin Richard Preston mai suna The Hot Zone (1994) ya bayyana dangantakar kogon da Kwayar cutar Marburg bayan mutane biyu da suka ziyarta (daya a cikin 1980 kuma wani a cikin 1987) sun kamu da cutar kuma sun mutu.

Ƙasar dutsen ja ce daga baya.  Dutsen shi ne wurin kama koguna da dama kamar kogin Suam, wanda ya zama Turkwel a kasa kuma ya ratsa cikin tafkin Turkana, da kogin Nzoia da kogin Lwakhakha, wanda ke kwarara zuwa tafkin Victoria.  Garuruwan Mbale, Uganda da Kitale na Kenya suna cikin tudun mun tsira.  Wurin da ke kusa da dutsen yana da kariya da wuraren shakatawa na Dutsen Elgon guda biyu, ɗaya a kowane gefen iyakar ƙasa da ƙasa

 Dabbobi 
Yawan Giwaye na daji na Afirka suna kusa da dutsen wanda ke shiga cikin koguna don samun damar gishiri. Wannan yawan jama'a ya kasance a kusa da dukan dutsen, amma tun daga lokacin an rage shi zuwa gefen Kenya, inda suka shiga cikin Kitum Cave . 

Akwai nau'ikan nau'ikan dabbobi masu shayarwa da yawa waɗanda ke iyakance zuwa Dutsen Elgon, gami da Elgon shrew (Crocidura elgonius), Rudd's mole-rat (Tachyoryctes ruddi), da linzamin linzamin pygmy na Thomas (Mus sorella).  Har ila yau, akwai nau'o'in nau'in tsuntsaye masu yawa, ciki har da Sharpe's longclaw (Macronyx sharpei), Hunter's cisticola (Cisticola hunteri), Jackson's spurfowl (Pternistis jacksoni), da Elgon francolin (Scleroptila elgonensis). 

Wani nau'in nau'in bushbuck (Tragelaphus scriptus heterochrous) yana iyakance ga dutsen.  Du Toit's torrent frog (Arthroleptides dutoiti), wanda aka yi la'akari da nau'in EDGE saboda bambancin juyin halitta, an san shi ne kawai daga samfurin guda daya da aka tattara a gefen dutsen Kenya..

 Tsire-tsire 
alt=Mount Elgon.|thumb|Dutsen Elgon
Ana samun wasu tsire-tsire masu ban sha'awa a kan dutsen, gami da Ardisiandra wettsteinii, Carduus afromontanus, Echinops hoehnelii, Ranunculus keniensis, da Romulea keniensis.

 Ƙasashen cikin gida 
alt=Mount-elgon-national|thumb|Dutsen Elgon
Dutsen Elgon da magudanan ruwa na da kabilu biyar: Bagisu, da Mbay, da Sor, da Sapiiny, da Koony, da Someek, da Pook, da kuma Ogiek, wadanda aka fi sani da yankin a karkashin laima na Ndorobo.. 

 Dubi kuma 

 Jerin Ultras na Afirka
 Rashin ruwa na Uganda na 2010
 Jerin tsaunuka masu fitattun wuta a Kenya
 Harsunan Elgon
 Rikicin Dutsen Elgon
 Tuddan da aka tsara a nono
 Kakapel Rockshelter
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