{{Infobox mountain | name = Mount Liru | image = | image_caption = | elevation_m = 1388 | location = Koboko District, Uganda | range = West Nile sub-region | coordinates = | map = Uganda | map_caption = Location in Uganda | country = Uganda | region = West Nile | topo = | first_ascent = | easiest_route = }}
{{Short description|Mountain in Uganda}} thumb|Ancestral hill of the Kakwa
'''Mount Liru''' is a Ugandan mountain in Koboko District, formerly part of Arua in north western Uganda( near borders with the democratic republic of the Congo). The mountain is an important location in the origin myth of the Kakwa people.<ref>{{cite web |title=Kakwa People and their Culture |url=https://ugandatourismcenter.com/place/kakwa-people-and-their-culture/ |website=ugandatourismcenter.com |access-date=22 April 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Shiroya |first1=O.J.E. |title=The Lugbara States – Politics, Economics and Warfare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries |journal=Transafrican Journal of History |date=1981 |volume=10 |issue=1/2 |page=127 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24328592 |access-date=22 April 2025 |issn=0251-0391}}</ref>
== Altitude == The elevation above sea level is 1,388 metres (1,388m).<ref>{{cite web |title=Liru mountain, Northern Region, Uganda |url=https://ug.geoview.info/liru,230161 |website=geoview.info |access-date=22 April 2025}}</ref>
==See also== * List of National Cultural Sites in Northern Region, Uganda * List of mountains in Uganda * Geography of Uganda * West Nile sub-region * Koboko District
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Liru}} Category:Culture of Uganda Category:Mountains of Uganda Category:West Nile sub-region
{{Uganda-geo-stub}} {{Africa-mountain-stub}} Category:Koboko District Category:Sacred mountains