Establishment: 1968
Area: 52 sq km
Location: situated between Latitude 4040’s and Longitude 29038’E at its centre.
Principal features: Mountains; Lake, rift Valley.
Altitude: 681m to 1,524 above sea level.
Major attractions:
Chimpanzees; about eight species of primates including olive baboon, blue monkey, red tailed monkey, vervet monkey, red colobus monkey, two species of nocturnal bushbabies, forest, lake Tanganyika, valleys with streams; Kakombe and Mkenkeriverine waterfalls. Meeting place by Dr. Livingstone and Stanley at Ujiji in Kigoma town.
Common animals:
Bushbuck, bush – pig, Leopard, Duiker, civets, white tailed Mongoose, primates, buffalo, hyrax, warthog, waterbuck, checkered, elephant shrew etc