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Ntara
Ntara is a settlement in Kitagwenda District, in Western Region, Uganda, Western Uganda. It is the political, administrative and commercial headquarters of the district. Ntara is one of the two municipalities in the newly-created Kitagwenda District, the other being Kabujogera Town Council. Location Ntara is located approximately , southwest of Kamwenge, the nearest large town. This is approximately , south of Fort Portal, the nearest large city. Ntara is located approximately , by road, west of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The geographical coordinates of Ntara are:0°00'17.0"N, 30°21'58.0"E (Latitude:0.004722; Longitude:30.366111). Overview The town of Ntara, is the largest urban centre in Kitagwenda District, and it serves as the district headquarters. Landmarks The landmarks at or near Ntara include: * Mpanga Power Station - An 18 MW hydroelectric power plant across River Mpanga * Lake George (Uganda), Lake George - An inland crater lake that lies entirely ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kitagwenda District
Kitagwenda District is a Districts of Uganda, district in Western Region, Uganda, Western Uganda. The district is named after ''Kitagwenda County'', which is coterminous with the district. Kitagwenda District is part of the Toro Kingdom, Kingdom of Toro, one of the ancient traditional monarchies in Uganda. The kingdom is coterminous with Toro sub-region, home to an estimated 1 million inhabitants in 2002, according to the national population and housing census conducted that year. The districts that constitute the sub-region are: (a) Bunyangabu District (b) Kabarole District (c) Kamwenge District (d) Kyegegwa District (e) Kyenjojo District and (f) Kitagwenda District. Location Kitagwenda District is bordered by Kabarole District to the northwest and north, Kamwenge District to the northeast, Ibanda District to the east and southeast, Rubirizi District to the southwest and Kasese District to the west. Ntara, the district headquarters lies approximately , by road, south of Fort ... [...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] |
Lake George (Uganda)
Lake George or Lake Katunguru is a lake in Uganda. It covers a total surface area of and is a part of the African Great Lakes system, although it is not considered one of the Great Lakes. Like the other lakes in the region, it was renamed after a member of the British royal family, in this case Prince George, later to become King George V. Lake George drains to the southwest into Lake Edward through the Kazinga Channel. The area surrounding the lake is populated by the Batooro, Basongora, Banyampaka and Banyankore peoples, among others. All these nations speak closely-related dialects which are generally referred as Runyakitara language. ''Akatunguru'' is a word which means ‘onion’ and is used by all these different peoples. Thus, the lake came to be known as Katunguru because of its onion-like shape. The explorer Henry Morton Stanley was the first European to see the lake in 1875, after following the course of the Katonga River from Lake Victoria during his trans-Africa ... [...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] |
Toro Sub-region
Toro sub-region is a region in Uganda that is coterminous with Toro Kingdom in Western Uganda. The districts that constitute the sub-region include the following: * Bunyangabu District * Kabarole District * Kamwenge District * Kyegegwa District * Kyenjojo District * Kitagwenda District Prior to 1967, the sub-region also included: * Bundibugyo District * Kasese District * Ntoroko District In 1967, Milton Obote abolished the Uganda traditional monarchies. When Yoweri Museveni Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Tibuhaburwa (born 15 September 1944) is a Ugandan politician and retired senior military officer who has been the 9th and current President of Uganda since 26 January 1986. Museveni spearheaded rebellions with aid of then ... restored them in 1993, the sub-region had shrunk to its present size after Obudhingiya bwa Bwamba in Bundibugyo district and Obusinga bwa Rwenzururu in Kasese district became independent. The sub-region was home to an estimated 1 million people in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Empire Of Kitara
The Kingdom of the Banyakitara, also known as Union of Kitara (Union of Chwezi) or Chwezi Union, and better known as the Kitara Empire, was an empire in East Africa. It existed in the region from around the early bronze age to about 500 C.E. During its peak under the mysterious Chwezi Kings, the empire encompassed modern day Uganda, Eastern Kenya, eastern D.R. Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Tanzania, Malawi, Zimbabwe and Angola. History According to oral traditions of western Uganda, the Kitara empire disintegrated during the 14th century, 14th-15th century, 15th centuries, and broke up into new autonomous kingdoms ruled by descendants of the Chwezi who, by oral legend, mysteriously vanished without a trace. The new kingdoms included Bunyoro, Tooro, Ankole, Buganda, Busoga in Uganda, the Kingdom of Rwanda, Burundi, and Karagwe in northern Tanzania Tanzania (; ), officially the United Republic of Tanzania ( sw, Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a country in East Africa w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park
Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is a national park in southwestern Uganda. It was created in 1991 and covers an area of . Geography Mgahinga Gorilla National Park is located in the Virunga Mountains and encompasses three inactive volcanoes, namely Mount Muhabura, Mount Gahinga, and Mount Sabyinyo. In altitude the national park ranges from and is part of the Nile River watershed area. It is contiguous with Rwanda's Volcanoes National Park and the southern sector of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The park is about by road south of the town of Kisoro and approximately by road west of Kabale, the largest city in the sub-region. Climate The area experiences two wet rainy seasons: February to May; and September to December. The average monthly rainfall varies from in October to in July. Biodiversity The national park encompasses bamboo forest, Albertine Rift montane forests, Ruwenzori-Virunga montane moorlands with tree heath, and an alpine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kyambura Game Reserve
Kyambura Game Reserve or Chambura Game Reserve, which includes the Kyambura Gorge, adjoins the Queen Elizabeth National Park in Uganda. It is home to a variety of wildlife. The area is an important water source for many animals and is surrounded by savanna, but is generally noted for its high concentration of primate life located in the gorge. History Kyambura Game Reserve was formed as the Kyambura Controlled Hunting Area in 1962, and upgraded to game reserve status in 1965. In the 1980s the southern area was colonised, but these people were evicted in 1990, and the land rented out to a private concessionaire called Zwilling. After the Uganda Wildlife Statute of 1996 changed the name of all game reserves to wildlife reserves, the reserve became formally known as the Kyambura Wildlife Reserve. The hunting concession was terminated in 1999 due to illegal hunting.It serves as a buffer zone to the Queen Elizabeth National Park (QENP). Geography Kyambura is located on north-eastern s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bigo Bya Mugenyi
Bigo bya Mugenyi, also Bigo (the word “Bigo” meaning city), is an extensive alignment of ditches and berms comprising ancient earthworks located in the interlacustrine region of southwestern Uganda. Situated on the southern shore of the Katonga River, Bigo is best described as having two elements. The first consists of a long, irregular ditch and bank alignment with multiple openings that effectively creates an outer boundary by connecting to the Katonga River in the east and the Kakinga swamp to the west. Toward its eastern end the outer ditch branches further to the east to encompass a nearby crossing of the Katonga River. The second element consists of a central, interconnected group of four irregularly shaped ditch and bank enclosures that are connected to the Katonga River by a single ditch. Three mounds are associated with the central enclosures; two within and one immediately to the west. When combined, the Bigo earthworks extend for more than 10 kilometers. Resulting from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Munsa
Munsa is an archaeological site in Uganda, located in the south-eastern part of Bunyoro (), and is commonly recognized by a rocky hill known by the locals as "Bikegete", which is enclosed within an earthworks system of ancient ditches. The site is approximately north-west of Kakumiro township in Bugangaizi County, Kakumiro District. "Munsa" is a Runyoro(Lunyoro/Runyoro Edited by Nicholas Aliganyira Nkuuna) name that means "in the trenches". The architects of the earthworks are unknown, although it has been speculated that the site can be linked to the Bachwezi. There is no evidence for this, however, and it seems likely that association of Munsa with the Bachwezi or Chwezi is a recent development. Excavations of this site have reconstructed the late-Holocene environmental history through evidence of iron-working, human burials, food production, and earthworks. While Bikigete may have been occupied as early as the 9th century AD, radiocarbon and luminescence dates obtained during e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ntusi
Ntusi is a Late Iron Age archaeological site located in southwestern Uganda that dates from the tenth century to the fifteenth century AD. Ntusi is dominated by two large mounds and manmade scraped valley basins called, bwogero. Long abandoned by the time Hima herdsman grazed their cattle on the Bwera, the herdsman named the site "Ntusi" meaning, "the mounds", after the prominent earthworks. The archaeological record at Ntusi is unmistakable in the signs of intense occupation and activity and it represents the beginning of political complexity in this region of Africa.Reid, Andrew 1996 Ntusi and the Development of Social Complexity in Southern Uganda. In ''Aspects of African Archaeology.'' Edited by G. Pwiti and R. Soper. pp. 621-627. University of Zimbabwe Publications, Harare, Zimbabwe Bigo bya Mugenyi, another site with prominent earthworks, lies 13 km to the north of Ntusi. The mounds The two large mounds and the bwogero are the major earthworks at Ntusi. The mounds, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rubirizi District
Rubirizi District is a district in Western Uganda. Like most Ugandan districts, the district is named after its 'chief town', Rubirizi, where the district headquarters are located. Location Rubirizi District is bordered by Kasese District to the north, Kitagwenda District to the northeast, Ibanda District to the east, Buhweju District to the southeast, Bushenyi District to the south, Rukungiri District to the southwest and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. The district headquarters at Rubirizi are located approximately , by road, northwest of Mbarara, the largest city in Ankole sub-region. This is approximately , southwest of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city. The coordinates of the district are: 00 16S, 30 06E. Overview Rubirizi District was carved out of Bushenyi District in July 2010. Prior to then, the district was known as ''Bunyaruguru County''. It is one of the districts that constitute Ankole sub-region, home to an estimated 3.9 million Banyank ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
