Sibiti River
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The Sibiti River is a seventy-five-kilometre waterway
Waterway
A waterway is any navigable body of water. Waterways can include rivers, lakes, seas, oceans, and canals. In order for a waterway to be navigable, it must meet several criteria:...

 which connects Lake Eyasi
Lake Eyasi
Lake Eyasi is a seasonal shallow endorheic salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau, just south of the Serengeti National Park and immediately southwest of the Ngorongoro Crater in the Crater Highlands of Tanzania...

 and Lake Kitangari, and one of the few non-man-made canals in the world.

Both Lakes Eyasi and Kitangari are located south from The Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous for its annual migration of over one and a half million white bearded wildebeest and 250,000 zebra...

, Tanzania
Tanzania
The United Republic of Tanzania is a country in East Africa bordered by Kenya and Uganda to the north, Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west, and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. The country's eastern borders lie on the Indian Ocean.Tanzania is a state...

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The Sibiti River has one tributary, The Semu River
Semu River
-References:...

. The Sibiti River belongs to a rather dense Basin which includes Lake Eyasi, and several rivers entering Lake Kitangiri, including:
  • Manonga River
    Manonga River
    Manonga River is a river of Tanzania....

  • Wembere River
    Wembere River
    -References:...

  • Cheli River
  • Mpiringa River
  • Mwaru River
  • Mhawala River
  • Nyahua River
  • Chona River
  • Kapatu River

Sibiti River in History

  • A Bantu
    Bantu languages
    The Bantu languages constitute a traditional sub-branch of the Niger–Congo languages. There are about 250 Bantu languages by the criterion of mutual intelligibility, though the distinction between language and dialect is often unclear, and Ethnologue counts 535 languages...

    -speaking people, The Nyiramba, crossed the Sibiti River while looking for pacific lands. Some of their anecdoctes highlight the marshy nature of the area around the Sibiti River.
  • Some archaeological remains have been found near lake Eyasi by a German Expedition
    Germany
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    in the 1930s.
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