Uluguru Mountains

Overview

The Uluguru Mountains are found within Morogoro Region. The main Uluguru Mountains is a ridge running approximately north-south and rising to 2,630 m altitude at their highest point. The greater Uluguru area also includes a number of isolated massifs surrounding the main block. On the main Uluguru range, villages touch the forest boundary and over 151,000 people are found within the mountain area, often at increasing densities at higher altitudes up to the forest boundary.

For over three centuries the mountain and its surroundings have mainly been the home to the Luguru, the main tribe in the area. The name means “people of the mountain” and most of them now live in and around the mountains, mainly with agriculture as their way of surviving.

Uluguru can show you some of the world’s richest and most species-diverse rainforests, containing more than ten endemic reptilian and amphibian species and over a hundred endemic plants, including African violet, busy Lizzie, and begonias. Of the mammals, you can meet here are yellow baboons, blue monkeys, black and white colobus monkeys, wild pigs, and duiker antelopes, but still, the mountains are most known for their birdlife.