The volcano of Nyiragongo in East Africa has been active for a long time and has had a major affect on the land as well as the inhabitants around it. Mount Nyiragongo is a volcano in the Virunga Mountains and is part of the Great Rift Valley and is categorized as a type stratovalcano. This volcano is located in The Democratic Republic of the Congo and is also located near the town of Goma and Lake Kivu. The volcano of Nyiragongo is also located west of the border with Rwanda. It partly overlaps two other volcanoes, the Baratu and Shaheru, and is also surrounded by hundreds of small volcanic cinder cones from flank eruptions.
The Virunga Mountains were first determined to be volcanoes in 1891 and out of the eight volcanoes in this mountain range; Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira have together been responsible for forty percent of Africa's historic volcanic eruptions. The volcano of Nyiragongo stretches 11,384 feet tall and the main crater of the volcano is 250 meters deep and 2......
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