# Rusumo Falls

- **Country:** Tanzania
- **Width:** 40 m
- **Height:** 15 m
- **Location:** Rwanda-Tanzania border
- **Watercourse:** Nile
- **Photo Caption:** The border crossing at Rusumo Falls. Tanzania is on the left, Rwanda on the right.

Rusumo Falls is a waterfall located on the Kagera river on the border between Rwanda and Tanzania, part of the most distant headwaters of the river Nile. The falls are approximately high and wide and have formed on Precambrian schists and quartz–phyllites.

![Photo of Rusumo Falls](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7c/RusumoFalls2.jpg)

**Source:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rusumo_Falls (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)