Rukara is a sector and town in
Kayonza district
Kayonza is a district (''akarere'') located in Eastern Province, Rwanda. Its capital is Mukarange.The population of Kayonza District is projected to 457,156 people in 2022, living in 12 sectors (''imirenge''): Gahini, Kabare, Kabarondo, Mukaran ...
in
Eastern Province in
Rwanda
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 ...
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Geography
Rukara covers an area of 64.37 km
2 and lies at an altitude of about 1,540 meters. The sector is divided into three cells:
Kawangire,
Rukara and
Rwimishinya. It borders
Murundi to the northeast,
Gahini
Gahini is a sector and village in Kayonza District, Eastern Province, Rwanda. It is situated on a hill, at an altitude of 1,520 metres (4,990 ft) above sea-level, close to the eastern edge of Lake Muhazi and by road from the capital, K ...
to the southeast,
Muhazi to the south,
Kiramuruzi to the southwest and
Kiziguro to the northwest. The Rukara sector is bordered to the south by the
Muhazi reservoir.
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Demographics
The
census in 2022 put the population at 38,231. Ten years earlier, it was 31,176, which corresponds to an annual population increase of 2.1 percent between 2012 and 2022.
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Transport
National Road 24 runs through the sector along the north shore of Lake Muhazi from northwest to southeast.
National Road 25 and a district road meet this road from the northeast.
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References
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Sectors of Rwanda