Bunyamwera is a town in
Bundibugyo District,
Uganda
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.
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 spur village, and children there went to primary school in the
parish
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of
Mutunda.
Bunyamwera parish includes two
hydropower
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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 ...
'' was first isolated,
and it also lends its name to that virus'
genus
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''
Orthobunyavirus'', its
family
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''
Peribunyaviridae'', and its
order
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* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
* Heterarchy, a system of organization wherein the elements have the potential to be ranked a number of ...
''
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 ''Bunyav ...
''.
References
{{Bundibugyo District
Populated places in Western Region, Uganda
Bundibugyo District