Location South Sudan Elevation 3,187 m Range Imatong Mountains | Parent range Imatong Mountains Prominence 2,120 m | |
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Listing Country high point
Ultra Similar Pico de São Tomé, Maromokotro, Emi Koussi, Mount Shimbiris, Pico Basilé | ||
Mount Kinyeti is the highest peak in South Sudan. It is located in the Imatong Mountains in Ikwoto County of Imatong State state, near the Ugandan border. It was earlier located in Eastern Equatoria before the reorganisation of states. Kinyeti has an elevation of 3,187 metres (10,456 ft) above sea level. The group of high mountains that contain Kinyeti, extending to the border with Uganda, are sometimes called the Lomariti or Lolobai mountains.
Map of Kinyeti, South Sudan
The lower parts of the mountain were covered with lush forest. These are the most northern forests of the East African montane forest ecoregion. The summit is rocky, with montane grassland and scattered, low ericaceous scrubs, low subshrub and herbs in rock crevices. One of the first Europeans to visit the mountain was the botanist Thomas Ford Chipp, who discovered Coreopsis Chippii near the summit.