Qualla: Marungu highlands https://qualla.com/marungu-highlands en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:26 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Marungu highlands https://qualla.com/marungu-highlands Marungu highlands: Introduction https://qualla.com/marungu-highlands/ Hyperolius nasicus is a small, slender tree frog with a markedly pointed snout. It is known from one place in the world: a spot called Kasiki, at 2,300 meters in the Marungu highlands of the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. Prigogine's sunbird lives nearby, found only in the riparian forest of these same highlands, recorded from Kasiki, the Lufoko River, Matafali, Pande, and Sambwe. The Marungu is one of those unlikely African highlands where the ordinary species of the surrounding lowlands give way to something else - something local, something precarious, something held together by the moisture in a particular ravine.

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/t/p/marungu-highlands-wp/kwtp-marungu-highlands-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Marungu highlands: A Plateau Above a Rift https://qualla.com/marungu-highlands/ The Marungu highlands rise west of the southern half of Lake Tanganyika, in the Tanganyika Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The range is split by the Mulobozi River, which empties into the lake just north of Moba port. The northern section reaches 2,100 meters; t...

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]]> Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/k/w/t/p/marungu-highlands-wp/kwtp-marungu-highlands-the-drowned-plateau.mp3 0:06 3 full Marungu highlands: Endemic Life https://qualla.com/marungu-highlands/ The list of what lives in the Marungu ravines reads like a botanical roll call of high central Africa. Parinari excelsa, Teclea nobilis, Polyscias fulva, Ficus storthophylla, and Turrea holstii grow in ravines. By the streams you find Syzygium cordatum, Ficalhoa laurifolia, and I...

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