Introduce the Great Rift Valley!

The Rift Valley in East Africa is the largest fault zone on the world continent, which looks like a huge scar from satellite photos. The Rift Valley in East Africa is called "the scar of the earth".

When flying over the vast Indian Ocean and entering the equator of the East African continent, looking down from the window, there is a huge "knife mark" on the ground, which is the famous "East African Rift Valley", also known as the "East African Grand Canyon". This great rift valley, which is equivalent to the circumference of the earth 1/6, is the largest rift zone in the world, with magnificent momentum and spectacular scenery. Some people vividly call it "a big scar on the earth's epidermis."

The overall shape of the Great Rift Valley in East Africa can be drawn as an irregular triangle, with a width of several tens to 200 kilometers and a depth of 1000 to 2000 kilometers. The east branch of the East African Rift Valley starts from the Schiller estuary in the south, passes through Lake Malawi, passes through the central East African Plateau and the central Ethiopian Plateau in the north, and reaches the northern end of the Red Sea, with a total length of about 5,800 kilometers. The west branch starts from the northwest end of Lake Malawi in the south, passes through Lake Tanganyika, Lake Kivu and Lake Mobutu, and reaches the White Nile Valley in Sudan, with a total length of 1700 km. It is the longest discontinuous valley in the world, named by the explorer John Walter Gregory. If three points in the triangle are used to describe the detailed geographical location of the Rift Valley in East Africa, then the south point is at the mouth of Mozambique, the northwest point is as far as the Jordan River in Sudan, and the north point can enter the Dead Sea. There are many lakes and volcanoes in the middle. This rift valley is a natural reservoir, which concentrates most of the lakes in Africa, with a total of more than 30.