Rufiji River

The Rufiji River is a town lies totally within Tanzania. The river is shaped by way of the confluence of the Kilombero and Luwegu rivers. It is approximately 600 kilometres 370 mi long, with its supply in southwestern Tanzania and its mouth at the Indian Ocean at a point among Mafia Island called Mafia Channel. Its predominant tributary is the Great Ruaha River. It is navigable for approximately one hundred kilometres 62 mi. The Rufiji is about two hundred kilometres one hundred twenty mi south of Dar es Salaam. The river's delta incorporates the largest mangrove wooded area in japanese Africa. A branch of historical sea routes led down the East African coast referred to as "Azania"

with the aid of the Greeks and Romans within the 1st century CE as defined in the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and, very in all likelihood, Chinese: within the third century by using the Chinese, at the least as some distance because the port recognized to the Romans as Rhapta, which turned into probable placed within the delta of the Rufiji River in current Tanzania. During the First World War, from October 1914 to July 1915, the river delta become the scene of an extended naval operation. These were the tries, and later success, by way of the Royal Navy to neutralize and damage the German cruiser Konigsberg.