Uganda is home to more than half of the world's surviving mountain gorillas. Tourists seek out Unesco World Heritage Site the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, where the endangered gorillas live in their natural habitat. Primates abound too in the Rwenzori Mountains, which is the highest mountain range in Africa. They're commonly known as the Mountains of the Moon.
The waterfalls on the White Nile near the city of Jinja have, since 1954, been submerged together as the Owen Falls Dam accommodating a hydroelectric power station and supplying electricity to the country.
The most famous of Ugandan waterfalls is Murchison Falls, commonly thought to be the world's most powerful waterfall. The Sipi Falls are a collection of three waterfalls on the slopes of Mt Elgon.
For a landlocked country, Uganda has vast lakes including the Kyoga, Albert and Edward lakes but the most famous is Lake Victoria, which feeds the White Nile and the Katonga River, near Uganda's capital city of Kampala.
