Bunyamwera is a town in
Bundibugyo District
Bundibugyo District is a Districts of Uganda, district in the Western Region, Uganda, 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 Kin ...
,
Uganda
Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda, is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered to the east by Kenya, to the north by South Sudan, to the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to the south-west by Rwanda, and to the ...
.
It lies just outside of
Rwenzori Mountains National Park, 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 Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
of
Mutunda.
Bunyamwera parish includes two
hydropower
Hydropower (from Ancient Greek -, "water"), also known as water power or water energy, is the use of falling or fast-running water to Electricity generation, produce electricity or to power machines. This is achieved by energy transformation, ...
plants,
Ndugutu and
Sindila.
Bunyamwera is where ''
Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus'' was first isolated,
and it also lends its name to that virus'
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
''
Orthobunyavirus'', its
family
Family (from ) is a Social group, group of people related either by consanguinity (by recognized birth) or Affinity (law), affinity (by marriage or other relationship). It forms the basis for social order. Ideally, families offer predictabili ...
''
Peribunyaviridae
''Peribunyaviridae'' is a Family (biology), family of viruses in the order ''Elliovirales''. Its name partially derives from Bunyamwera, Uganda, where the founding species was first isolated.
Taxonomy
The family contains the following genera:
* ...
'', and its
order
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* A socio-political or established or existing order, e.g. World order, Ancien Regime, Pax Britannica
* Categorization, the process in which ideas and objects are recognized, differentiated, and understood
...
''
Bunyavirales
''Bunyaviricetes'' is a class of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses with mainly tripartite genomes. Member viruses infect arthropods, plants, protozoans, and vertebrates. The name ''Bunyaviricetes'' derives from Bunyamwera, where the virus Bun ...
''.
References
{{Bundibugyo District
Populated places in Western Region, Uganda
Bundibugyo District