Mount Lado or Jebel Lado is an isolated hillock in

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, about 13 km northwest of the White Nile and 28 km due north of the national capital

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. The mountain was also called Mount Nyerkenyi. The current name comes from Lado-lo-Möri, the Bari chief who controlled the surrounding area when

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founded Lado, on the West Nile bank southeast of the mountain, as the capital of the Central Equatoria province. The hill rises about 500 m above the flat alluvial plain to a peak altitude of 1006 meters, and dominates the landscape, being the only hill in a radius of 30 km (the nearest one being Jebel Kunufi to the southwest, with peak at 871 m). The hill is almond-shaped, about 4.7 km long and 3.6 km wide, with the long axis oriented north by northeast. The Koda River runs about 3 km south and 5 km southwest of its base. It is surrounded by several small villages, including Ludo Kenyi and Rombe Lako.

References

Simon Simonse (2017): ''Kings of Disaster: Dualism, Centralism and the Scapegoat King in Southeastern Sudan'', page 502. Fountain Publishers; 556 pages. {{isbn, 9789970258970 Google Maps:
Jebel Lado
. View of the CEDASS farm project
with the Koda River, South Sudan and Mount Lado in the background.
Archived
Accessed on 2019-06-04. US Army:
Sheet NB36, Series 1301, Edition 2 AMS 3: Mongwalla
. Maps for the World site, Map txu-oclc-6654394-nb-36-3rd-ed. Accessed on 2019-03-24. Russian Army:
Map E36 X 83-T6
Maps for the world website, Map 500k--b36-3. Accessed on 2019-03-24. Mountains of South Sudan White Nile Juba