Kimihurura is one of 15
sectors
Sector may refer to:
Places
* Sector, West Virginia, U.S.
Geometry
* Circular sector, the portion of a disc enclosed by two radii and a circular arc
* Hyperbolic sector, a region enclosed by two radii and a hyperbolic arc
* Spherical sector, a ...
in
the district of Gasabo in
Ruanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by ...
's capital of
Kigali
Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali is a relativ ...
.
Geography
Kimihurura covers an area of 5.1 km
2 and lies at an altitude of about 1,480 meters.
[
][
] The sector is divided into three cells:
Kamukina,
Kimihurura and
Rugando.
[
] Neighboring sectors are
Kacyiro in the north,
Remera in the east,
Kicukiro in the southeast,
Gikondo in the southwest and
Muhima
Muhima is a sector (umurenge) in the Kigali Province, Nyarugenge district, Rwanda. It is located in the west part of the city of Kigali
Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geog ...
in the west.
Demographics
According to the 2022
census
A census (from Latin ''censere'', 'to assess') is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording, and calculating population information about the members of a given Statistical population, population, usually displayed in the form of stati ...
, the population was 16,425. Ten years earlier, it was 21,672, which corresponds to an annual population decrease of 2.7 percent between 2012 and 2022.
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][
]
Places of interest
Within the sector, the
Kigali Convention Centre
The Kigali Convention Centre is a convention centre in Kigali, the capital and largest city in Rwanda.
Location
The convention centre is located on Highway KN5, adjacent to the KG2 Roundabout, about west of Kigali International Airport. This is ...
is located in Rugando. Construction of the
convention center
A convention center (American and British English spelling differences, American English; or conference centre in British English) is a large building that is designed to hold a Convention (meeting), convention, where individuals and groups ...
, which opened in July 2016, began in 2009 and cost around $300 million.
[
] The
Anti-Corruption Monument, a 12-meter-high sculpture in the shape of a human hand by Iraqi artist
Ahmed Al-Bahrani, has stood in the parking lot in front of the convention center since December 2019.
[
] West of the congress grounds are shopping centers and
Kigali Centenary Park, and a few hundred meters northeast in Kamukina are the
Chamber of Deputies of Rwanda and the
Campaign Against Genocide Museum.
The sector is also home to several ministries of Rwanda, including the
Ministry of Defence
A ministry of defence or defense (see American and British English spelling differences#-ce.2C -se, spelling differences), also known as a department of defence or defense, is the part of a government responsible for matters of defence and Mi ...
, the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, the
Ministry of Infrastructure and the
Ministry of Justice
A justice ministry, ministry of justice, or department of justice, is a ministry or other government agency in charge of the administration of justice. The ministry or department is often headed by a minister of justice (minister for justice in a ...
.
References
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Sectors of Rwanda
Gasabo District