Kidepo Valley National Park

national park, Uganda

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Kidepo Valley National Park, national park located in northeastern Uganda. The park, which was established in 1962, occupies an area of 540 square miles (1,399 square km) in wooded grasslands and mountainous scenery in the northeastern corner of the country. Its rivers, including the Kidepo river, are in general seasonally dry. The park adjoins the frontiers of Kenya and South Sudan. The landscape is dominated by Mount Morungole on the east and by the Lotuku Ridge, which rises in South Sudan, to the north.

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