Cyamazera (Ubuvumo)

Michael Laumanns - 29/11/2015

(West province, Virunga mountains, Rubavu district) Co-ordinates: S 01"38°37.0’’; E 029°22'25.8°. Alt. ca. 2,295 m. Explored by the 2004 international expedition to NW Rwanda. Very much branched lava tube cave system with a single entrance in a small roof collapse doline. The cave also has at least three distinctive levels and a number of sub-levels. The cave has some larger chambers and spacious lava tube galleries but often do not provide passages of walking size. Not all the narrow passages were pushed to a final conclusion and at least two crawls with strong air current were left for future exploration. Ubuvumo Cyamazera has very nice lava flow forms in many places. Survey and description according to Laumanns et al. (2005, 2007).