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{{Infobox mountain
| name = Kinyeti
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| elevation_m = 3187
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| prominence_m = 2120
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| map = South Sudan
| map_caption = Location in South Sudan
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| label_position = top
| listing = [[List of countries by highest point|Country high point]]<br />[[Ultra prominent peak|Ultra]]
| location = [[Ikotos County]], [[Eastern Equatoria]], [[South Sudan]]
| range = [[Imatong Mountains]]
| coordinates = {{coord|3|56|51|N|32|54|32|E|type:mountain_scale:100000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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'''Mount Kinyeti''' is the highest peak in [[South Sudan]]. It is located in the [[Imatong Mountains]] in [[Ikotos County]] of [[Eastern Equatoria]], near the [[Uganda]]n border. Kinyeti has an elevation of {{convert|3187|m|ft}} above sea level.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/318949/Mount-Kinyeti
|title=Mount Kinyeti
|work=Encyclopædia Britannica
|accessdate=2011-07-06}}</ref>
The group of high mountains that contain Kinyeti, extending to the border with Uganda, are sometimes called the Lomariti or Lolobai mountains.<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PUa_cBHMB0IC&pg=PA9
|page=9
|title=Flora of the Sudan-Uganda border area east of the Nile, Part 1
|author=Kaj Vollesen
|publisher=Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab |year=1998
|ISBN=87-7304-297-8}}</ref>
The lower parts of the mountain were covered with lush forest.<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lvVao2vWnxUC&pg=PA5
|page=5
|title=Sudan: the Bradt travel guide
|author=Paul Clammer
|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides |year=2005
|ISBN=1-84162-114-5}}</ref>
These are the most northern forests of the [[East African montane forests|East African montane forest]] ecoregion.<ref>{{WWF ecoregion
|id=at0108
|name=East African montane forests
|accessdate=2011-07-06}}</ref>
The summit is rocky, with montane grassland and scattered, low ericaceous scrubs, low subshrub and herbs in rock crevices.<ref>{{cite book
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lD5sE7bjhskC&pg=PA406
|title=Flora of the Sudan-Uganda border area east of the Nile: Catalogue of vascular plants, 2nd part, vegetation and phytogeography, Part 2
|author=Kaj Vollesen
|publisher=Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab |year=2005
|ISBN=87-7304-318-4}}</ref>
One of the first Europeans to visit the mountain was the botanist [[Thomas Ford Chipp]], who discovered ''[[Coreopsis chippii]]'' near the summit.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://libsysdigi.library.uiuc.edu/OCA/Books2009-05/revisionofgenusfisher/revisionofgenusfisher.pdf
|title=Revision of the Genus Coreopsis
|author=Earl Edward Sherff
|publisher=Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago
|date=20 October 1936}}</ref>
[[File:Mount Kinyeti.jpg|thumb|Panoramic image from the top of the mount]]
Named after Mount Kinyeti is the [[Mount Kineti chameleon]] (Trioceros kinetensis), a threatened species. <ref> IUCN Red List https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/203826/2771689 </ref>
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{SouthSudan-geo-stub}}{{Eastern Equatoria}}
[[Category:East African montane forests]]
[[Category:Mountains of South Sudan]]
[[Category:Geography of Eastern Equatoria]]
[[Category:Ikotos County]]
[[Category:Highest points of countries]]
{{Highest points of Africa}}