Bunyamwera is a town in
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 loc ...
,
Uganda
}), is a landlocked country in East Africa
East Africa, Eastern Africa, or East of Africa, is the eastern subregion of the African continent. In the United Nations Statistics Division scheme of geographic regions, 10-11-(16*) territor ...
.
It lies just outside of
Rwenzori Mountains National Park
Rwenzori Mountains National Park is a Ugandan national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site located in the Rwenzori Mountains. Almost in size, the park has Africa's third highest mountain peak and many waterfalls, lakes, and glaciers. The park i ...
, which is to the south. The town is north of
Kagugu, southeast of
Bunyana, and southwest of
Butama.
Other nearby settlements include
Bundimbuga, 1½ km north, and
Bundikahondo, 2 km northwest.
The peak of
Busunga is 6 km northwest,
Kyabwageya's peak is 10 km east, and
Kinera's peak is 10 km east.
The nearest hospital, Kasulenge Health Center II, is 9 km northeast.
In the 1950s, Bunyamwera was considered a
Konzo
Konzo is an epidemic paralytic disease occurring among hunger-stricken rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary cyanide intake. Konzo was first ...
spur village, and children there went to primary school in the
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one or m ...
of
Mutunda.
Bunyamwera parish includes two
hydropower
Hydropower (from el, ὕδωρ, "water"), also known as water power, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by energy transformation, converting the Pot ...
plants,
Ndugutu and
Sindila.
Bunyamwera is where ''
Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus
''Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus'' (BUNV) is a negative-sense, single-stranded enveloped RNA virus. It is assigned to the ''Orthobunyavirus'' genus, in the ''Bunyavirales'' order.
''Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus'' can infect both humans and ''Aedes a ...
'' was first isolated,
and it also lends its name to that virus'
genus
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''
Orthobunyavirus
''Orthobunyavirus'' is a genus of the ''Peribunyaviridae'' family in the order ''Bunyavirales''. There are currently ~170 viruses recognised in this genus. These have been assembled into 103 species and 20 serogroups.
The name ''Orthobunyavirus' ...
'', its
family
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''
Peribunyaviridae
''Peribunyaviridae'' is a family of viruses in the order ''Bunyavirales''. Its name partially derives from Bunyamwera, Uganda, where the founding species was first isolated.
Unclassifed viruses
A number of viruses that belong to this family ha ...
'', and its
order ''
Bunyavirales
''Bunyavirales'' is an order of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses with mainly tripartite genomes. Member viruses infect arthropods, plants, protozoans, and vertebrates. It is the only order in the class ''Ellioviricetes''. The name ''Bunyavir ...
''.
References
{{Bundibugyo District
Populated places in Western Region, Uganda
Bundibugyo District