# Mount Liru

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{{Infobox mountain
| name               = Mount Liru
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| elevation_m        = 1388
| location           = Koboko District, Uganda
| range              = West Nile sub-region
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| map                = Uganda
| map_caption        = Location in Uganda
| country            = Uganda
| region             = West Nile
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{{Short description|Mountain in Uganda}}
thumb|Ancestral hill of the Kakwa

'''Mount Liru''' is a Ugandan mountain in [Koboko District](/source/Koboko_District), formerly part of [Arua](/source/Arua) in north western [Uganda](/source/Uganda)( near borders with the democratic republic of the Congo). The mountain is an important location in the [origin myth](/source/origin_myth) of the [Kakwa people](/source/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](/source/List_of_National_Cultural_Sites_in_Northern_Region%2C_Uganda)
* [List of mountains in Uganda](/source/List_of_mountains_in_Uganda)
* [Geography of Uganda](/source/Geography_of_Uganda)
* [West Nile sub-region](/source/West_Nile_sub-region)
* [Koboko District](/source/Koboko_District)

==References==
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