Source du Nil Monument

Near Rutovu in southern Burundi, a stone pyramid marks the symbolic southernmost source of the Nile. Erected in 1938 during the Belgian colonial era on the slopes of Mount Kikizi, it commemorates centuries of explorers who sought the river’s origin. The plaque honors "Eratosthenes, Ptolemy, Speke, Stanley, Livingstone, and others"—figures whose quests shaped the long search for the Nile’s beginnings.