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Ruduhira Marsh
Ruduhira Marsh (french: Marais de Ruduhira; ) is a marsh in the northeast of Kirundo Province, Burundi. Location Before being cut in half by a road, the Nyamabuno Marsh was more than wide and over long. In 2005 a road about was being built from Karambo in Kirundo Province to Ruzo, Muyinga Province through the Ruduhira marsh. The road cuts the marsh in two. The right part retains the Nyamabuno name, while the left part is called Ruduhira Marsh. The Nyamabuno and Ruduhira marshes drain the waters of Lake Rweru in the Vumasi, Rusenyi, Karambo and Nonwe watersheds. Exploitation By 2005 the start of agricultural clearing of these two marshes for rice cropping could be seen of both sides of the road. The road had caused water levels to drop, letting the local population start cultivating rice in the marsh. The road will cause progressive drying of the marshes and lowering of the lake levels. The administrator of the Bwambarangwe commune said in 2005 that an Agricultural Rehabili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirundo Province
Kirundo Province is one of the eighteen provinces of Burundi. Kirundo has three big lakes: Cohoha, Rweru, and Rwihinda. Lakes Cohoha and Rweru are located in commune Busone, and Lake Rwihinda is in commune Kirundo. Kirundo is the capital city of province Kirundo. Before the climate change, Kirundo was the richest province because of its productive land. Now Kirundo is no longer productive. The climate change devastate the province forever. In fifteen years those three lakes are almost half evaporated. It is the northernmost province and it shares an international border with Rwanda. Communes It is divided administratively into the following communes: * Commune of Bugabira * Commune of Busoni * Commune of Bwambarangwe * Commune of Gitobe * Commune of Kirundo The Commune of Kirundo is a commune of Kirundo Province in northern Burundi. Location The Commune of Kirundo has an area of and had a population of 93,110 as of the 2008 census. Environment The Rwihinda Lake Natur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 Great Lakes region and East Africa. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; Lake Tanganyika lies along its southwestern border. The capital cities are Gitega and Bujumbura, the latter being the country's largest city. The Twa, Hutu and Tutsi peoples have lived in Burundi for at least 500 years. For more than 200 of those years, Burundi was an independent kingdom, until the beginning of the 20th century, when it became a German colony. After the First World War and Germany's defeat, the League of Nations "mandated" the territory to Belgium. After the Second World War, this transformed into a United Nations Trust Territory. Both Germans and Belgia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marsh
A marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous rather than woody plant species.Keddy, P.A. 2010. Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation (2nd edition). Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK. 497 p Marshes can often be found at the edges of lakes and streams, where they form a transition between the aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. They are often dominated by grasses, rushes or reeds. If woody plants are present they tend to be low-growing shrubs, and the marsh is sometimes called a carr. This form of vegetation is what differentiates marshes from other types of wetland such as swamps, which are dominated by trees, and mires, which are wetlands that have accumulated deposits of acidic peat. Marshes provide habitats for many kinds of invertebrates, fish, amphibians, waterfowl and aquatic mammals. This biological productivity means that marshes contain 0.1% of global sequestered terrestrial carbon. Moreover, they have an outsized influence on clima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nyamabuno Marsh
Nyamabuno Marsh (; ) is a marsh in the northeast of Kirundo Province, Burundi. Location Nyamabuno Marsh is where boundaries of the Commune of Busoni to the west, the Commune of Bwambarangwe in the center and the Commune of Muyinga to the east converge. Its northern end lies between Lake Rweru to the north, which extends from Burindi into Rwanda, and Lake Kanzigiri to the south. The Köppen climate classification is Aw : Tropical savanna, wet. Before being cut in half by a road, the Nyamabuno marsh was more than wide and over long. Exploitation In 2005 a road about was being built from Karambo in Kirundo Province to Ruzo, Muyinga Province through the Ruduhira marsh. The road cuts the marsh in two. The right part retains the Nyamabuno name, while the left part is called Ruduhira Marsh Ruduhira Marsh (french: Marais de Ruduhira; ) is a marsh in the northeast of Kirundo Province, Burundi. Location Before being cut in half by a road, the Nyamabuno Marsh was more than wide ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muyinga Province
Muyinga Province is one of the 18 provinces of Burundi. Communes It is divided administratively into the following communes: * Commune of Buhinyuza * Commune of Butihinda * Commune of Gashoho * Commune of Gasorwe * Commune of Giteranyi * Commune of Muyinga * Commune of Mwakiro The commune of Mwakiro is a commune of Muyinga Province in northeastern Burundi Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri ya Burundi''; French language, French: '' ... {{Authority control Provinces of Burundi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Protected Aquatic Landscape Of Bugesera
The Protected Aquatic Landscape of the North (french: Paysage Aquatique Protégé du Nord), also called the Northern Protected Waterway or Northern Protected Waterscape, is a protected area in Kirundo Province, Burundi. It covers eight lakes in the north of the province, and a forest. It was designated Ramsar site no. 2149 in March 2014. Location The Protected Aquatic Landscape of the North is in the Bugesera Depression ecological zone of Burundi. It has an average altitude of and includes very rounded hills up to high. In the valley floor, vast marshes sheltering Cyperus papyrus are interspersed by lakes. Lake Rweru (7140 ha) and Lake Kanzigiri (750 ha) are in the eastern part of the Bugesera Depression. Lake Rweru is connected to Lake Kanzigiri through a valley filled with swamps. There is a natural savannah, the Murehe Forest (3075 ha) in the watershed of Lake Rweru. In the western part of the Bugesera Depression, the marshy valley of the upper Akanyaru River is to wide, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Kanzigiri
Lake Kanzigiri (french: Lac Kanzigiri, ) is a lake in the Kirundo Province of Burundi. Location Lake Kanzigiri is on the boundary between the Commune of Bwambarangwe to the east and the Commune of Busoni to the west. It lies to the south of Lake Rweru, to which it is connected by an area of marshland. The settlement of Kabanga is to the west of its southern point, and the settlement of Bunwera is to the east of the same point. Mukenke is to the south. The lake covers . Around Lake Kanzigiri there are wooded savannahs dominated by plants such as ''Pericopsis angolensis'', ''Parinari curatellifolia'' and ''Hymenocardia acida'', which indicate Zambezian influences. These eastern savannas are mainly found in the Ruvubu National Park, which indicates that Lake Kanzigiri and its marshes associated with it are a zone of separation between the Bugesera District and the Mosso-Malagarazi District. Tributaries and outlet The south end of the lake is a marsh that is fed by the Kan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lake Rweru
Lake Rweru is a lake close to the northernmost point of Burundi in central Africa. The northern shore of the lake forms part of Burundi's border with Rwanda. It is the most distant origin point of the Nile River. The Kagera River, considered by many as the start point of the Nile, rises at the northern part of the lake, located in Rwanda. Geography The lake has a surface area of between two countries, Burundi () and Rwanda (). The lake has a shoreline of approximately 76 km. The lake is very shallow in most parts and has a mean depth of 2.1 m with its maximum depth at 3 m located in Burundi. The Kagera River flows out of the lake in Burundi and flows east along Rwanda's border until it joins the Ruvubu River. Controversy In August 2015 fishermen in Burundi living around the lake in the Muyinga Province recovered over 40 unidentified bodies floating in the lake. Most of the bodies were wrapped in plastic. The bodies recovered were in the advance stages of decomposition, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akanyaru River
The Akanyaru River is the main tributary of the Nyabarongo River. It rises in the western highlands of Rwanda and Burundi, flows east and then north along the border between those countries before joining the Nyabarongo River. The lower stretches contain important but unprotected wetlands, which are under threat from human activity. Course The Mugere River, a major headwater, rises at an elevation of in Burundi. The river has sources at about elevation in the south of Rwanda. Many of the valleys of the higher tributaries are choked by papyrus, which contains seasonal swamp forests. The upstream portion of the river has a catchment area of about . The lower course of the river is a belt of permanent wetlands about wide that ends where it reaches the Nyabarongo River. In this stretch the river drops from an elevation of to . The swamp belt is fed from the right by lakes Cyohoha North and Cyohoha South. The Burundi side of the swamp belt has about of permanent swamp along a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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