About the Murchison falls

Sir Samuel and Florence Baker were the first Europeans to find them. Baker named them after Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society. The falls lend their name to the surrounding Murchison Falls National Park.

During the regime of Idi Amin in the 1970s the name was changed to Kabalega Falls, after the Omukama (King) Kabalega of Bunyoro, although this was never legally promulgated. The name reverted to Murchison Falls following the downfall of Idi Amin. It is still sometimes referred to as Kabalega Falls.

Inside Murchison falls National Park gives a complete bio about why it’s no doubt a haven of Africa’s futuristic insights, from its reowned pondering water falls feeding the game to the interior recipes ie. the hundreds of carnivores, herbivores and the unique kinds of flora and fauna seen everywhere both left and right.