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Ntoroko Peninsular And Beach
Ntoroko is a town officially known as Kanara Town Council in Ntoroko District Western Region, Uganda, Western Uganda. It is one of the four town councils of Ntoroko District the others being Karugutu, Uganda, Karugutu, Rwebisengo and Kibuku Town Council. Ntoroko is the largest fishing town on the southern Mwitanzige (Lake Albert) shore. Its located on the Ntoroko bay extending from Kanara Fishing village to the western half of the Ntoroko Peninsula (the eastern half making part of the Tooro Semliki Wildlife reserve). The peninsular also separates Ntoroko bay from the Muziizi Bay. By Road, Ntoroko town is approximately 84 KM Northwest of Fort Portal City, the regional Capital and approximately 79 KM via Karugutu, north of Kibuku Town Council the District Capital. Ntoroko/Kanara Town Council is settled by (like most Ugandan lake shore towns) many ethnicities, the largest being; Rwenzori Peoples; Batooro/Batuku, Bakonzo, Bamba, Babwisi. Bunyoro peoples; Bagangaizi,Bagungu and other Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flag Of Uganda
The flag of Uganda ( Ugandan Languages: ''Bendera ya Uganda'') was adopted on 9 October 1962, the date that Uganda became independent from the British Empire. It consists of six equal horizontal bands of black (top), yellow, red, black, yellow, and red (bottom); a white disc is superimposed at the centre and depicts the national symbol, a grey crowned crane, facing the hoist's side. During the colonial era the British used a British Blue ensign defaced with the colonial badge, as prescribed in 1865 regulations. Buganda, the largest of the traditional kingdoms in the colony of Uganda, had its own flag. However, in order to avoid appearing to give preference to one region of the colony over any other, the British colonial authorities selected the crane emblem for use on the Blue ensign and other official banners. History When the Democratic Party ruled the country, a design for flag was proposed. It had vertical stripes of green-blue-green, separated by narrower yellow stripes, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bakonzo
The BaKonzo (pl. ''Bakonzo'', sing. ''Mukonzo''), or Konzo, are a Bantu ethnic group located in the Rwenzori region of Southwest Uganda. Numbering 850,646 in the 2014 census, they live on the plains, hills and mountain sloping up to an altitude of 2,200 meters in the Rwenzori Mountains. Traditionally agriculturalists and animal husbanders, they farm yams, bean A bean is the seed of several plants in the family Fabaceae, which are used as vegetables for human or animal food. They can be cooked in many different ways, including boiling, frying, and baking, and are used in many traditional dishes th ...s, sweet potatoes, peanuts, soy beans, potatoes, rice, wheat, cassava, coffee, bananas, and cotton, while keeping goats, sheep, and poultry. They speak the Konjo language (Bantu), Konjo language and practice traditional religions and Christianity. Konzo speakers also live on the Western slopes of the Rwenzori range in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Populated Places In Western Region, Uganda
Population typically refers to the number of people in a single area, whether it be a city or town, region, country, continent, or the world. Governments typically quantify the size of the resident population within their jurisdiction using a census, a process of collecting, analysing, compiling, and publishing data regarding a population. Perspectives of various disciplines Social sciences In sociology and population geography, population refers to a group of human beings with some predefined criterion in common, such as location, race, ethnicity, nationality, or religion. Demography is a social science which entails the statistical study of populations. Ecology In ecology, a population is a group of organisms of the same species who inhabit the same particular geographical area and are capable of interbreeding. The area of a sexual population is the area where inter-breeding is possible between any pair within the area and more probable than cross-breeding with ind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muzizi Power Station
The Muzizi Power Station is a proposed hydroelectric power project in Uganda. The project, which has been planned for several years, has received a funding commitment from KfW and the French Development Agency. Location The power station is located across the River Muzizi, which forms the border between the Kagadi District and the Ntoroko District, close to the south-eastern shores of Lake Albert (Africa), Lake Albert, in the Western Region, Uganda, Western Region. This location is approximately , by road, south-west of the town of Ndaiga in Hoima District. The station is approximately , by road, north-northwest of Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. Overview As early as 1999, the site of the power station was identified by the government of Uganda as a potential mini-hydropower site. At first, a 10 megawatt project was anticipated. Later, the planned capacity of the project was increased to 26 megawatts. In December 2010, bids for an environmental impact study, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rwenzori Mountains
The Ruwenzori, also spelled Rwenzori and Rwenjura, are a range of mountains in eastern equatorial Africa, located on the border between Uganda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The highest peak of the Ruwenzori reaches , and the range's upper regions are permanently snow-capped and glaciated. Rivers fed by mountain streams form one of the sources of the Nile. Because of this, European explorers linked the Ruwenzori with the legendary Mountains of the Moon, claimed by the Greek scholar Ptolemy as the source of the Nile. Virunga National Park in eastern DR Congo and Rwenzori Mountains National Park in southwestern Uganda are located within the range. Geology The mountains formed about three million years ago in the late Pliocene epoch and are the result of an uplifted block of crystalline rocks including gneiss, amphibolite, granite and quartzite. The Rwenzori mountains are the highest non-volcanic, non-orogenic mountains in the world. This uplift divided the pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ntoroko Peninsular And Beach
Ntoroko is a town officially known as Kanara Town Council in Ntoroko District Western Region, Uganda, Western Uganda. It is one of the four town councils of Ntoroko District the others being Karugutu, Uganda, Karugutu, Rwebisengo and Kibuku Town Council. Ntoroko is the largest fishing town on the southern Mwitanzige (Lake Albert) shore. Its located on the Ntoroko bay extending from Kanara Fishing village to the western half of the Ntoroko Peninsula (the eastern half making part of the Tooro Semliki Wildlife reserve). The peninsular also separates Ntoroko bay from the Muziizi Bay. By Road, Ntoroko town is approximately 84 KM Northwest of Fort Portal City, the regional Capital and approximately 79 KM via Karugutu, north of Kibuku Town Council the District Capital. Ntoroko/Kanara Town Council is settled by (like most Ugandan lake shore towns) many ethnicities, the largest being; Rwenzori Peoples; Batooro/Batuku, Bakonzo, Bamba, Babwisi. Bunyoro peoples; Bagangaizi,Bagungu and other Ban ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Semliki Safari Lodge
Semliki River is a major river, long, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and Uganda in Central and East Africa. It flows north from Lake Edward in Beni Territory, Nord-Kivu, D.R.C avoiding the Rwenzori Mountains on its Right (East), emptying into Lake Albert in the Albertine Rift, Irumu Territory, Ituri Province, D.R.C overlooking the Blue Mountains to its left in the west. Its mouth is near the Village of Katolingo in Kanara subcounty, Ntoroko district, Uganda. Along its lower reaches, it meanders extensively forming part of the international border between the DRC and the western Ugandan districts of Bundibugyo and Ntoroko, near the Semuliki National Park. Increasing snow melt from the Rwenzoris, overgrazing, and other alterations to the watershed have caused bank erosion and frequent changes to the course of the meandering lower reaches of the river. In some places, Uganda is losing up to of land per year on its side of the river to erosion and silt from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tooro Semliki Wildlife Reserve , a region in western Africa
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Tooro may refer to: * Tooro language, a Bantu language of Uganda * Tooro Kingdom, a traditional kingdom of Uganda See also * Futa Tooro Futa Toro (Wolof and ff, Fuuta Tooro ''𞤆𞤵𞥄𞤼𞤢 𞤚𞤮𞥄𞤪𞤮''; ar, فوتا تورو), often simply the Futa, is a semidesert region around the middle run of the Senegal River. This region is along the border of Senegal and M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
River Wasa
A river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. In some cases, a river flows into the ground and becomes dry at the end of its course without reaching another body of water. Small rivers can be referred to using names such as creek, brook, rivulet, and rill. There are no official definitions for the generic term river as applied to geographic features, although in some countries or communities a stream is defined by its size. Many names for small rivers are specific to geographic location; examples are "run" in some parts of the United States, " burn" in Scotland and northeast England, and "beck" in northern England. Sometimes a river is defined as being larger than a creek, but not always: the language is vague. Rivers are part of the water cycle. Water generally collects in a river from precipitation through a drainage basin from surface runoff and other sources such as groundwater recharge, springs, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundibugyo District
Bundibugyo District is a district in the Western Region of Uganda, bordering the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The town of Bundibugyo is where both the district headquarters and the Bwamba Kingdom seat ( Obudhingiya Bwa Bwamba) are located. Before July 2010, the districts of Ntoroko and Bundibugyo were one. These districts are the only two in Uganda that lie west of the Rwenzori mountains. Bundibugyo (With Ntoroko) was first named Semuliki district on separating it from the Greator Kabarole district alongside Rwenzori district (Kasese) in 1974. Location Via Karugutu Bundibugyo District is bordered by Ntoroko District to the northeast, Kabarole District to the east, Bunyangabu District to the southeast, Kasese District to the south and the D.R.C to the west and north. The district headquarters at Bundibugyo are located approximately , by road, west of Fort Portal city the capital of Rwenzori Sub-region. This is about , north of Kasese town but no motorable roads l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banyarwanda
The Banyarwanda ( rw, Abanyarwanda (plural), Umunyarwanda (singular), lit=those who come from Rwanda) are the cultural, tribal and linguistic group of people who inhabit mainly Rwanda. Some Banyarwanda live in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, having migrated there from neighbouring Rwanda in waves, usually settling in the provinces of North Kivu and South Kivu. There are also 1 million Banyarwanda in Uganda, where they live in the west of the country; Umutara and Kitara are the centres of their pastoral and agricultural areas. Classification The Banyarwanda, through their language of Kinyarwanda, form a subgroup of the Bantu peoples, who inhabit a geographical area stretching east and southward from Central Africa across the African Great Lakes region down to Southern Africa. Scholars from the Royal Museum of Central Africa in Tervuren, building on earlier work by Malcolm Guthrie, placed Kinyarwanda within the Great Lakes Bantu languages. This classification groups t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
