Muramvya Province is one of the
18 provinces of
Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French: ''République du Burundi'' ), is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley at the junction between the African Gr ...
. The capital city is
Muramvya. In 2007 the province was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List.
Culture
The area is renowned for the route of enthronement of the ''Bami'' (
king
King is the title given to a male monarch in a variety of contexts. The female equivalent is queen regnant, queen, which title is also given to the queen consort, consort of a king.
*In the context of prehistory, antiquity and contempora ...
s), the royal capital of
Mbuye, the necropolis of the queen mothers in
Mpotsa, and the royal necropolis of
Nkiko-Mugamba, amongst other things.
World Heritage status
The region's cultural and natural landscape was added to the
UNESCO
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World Heritage
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