Rwinkwavu (Kinyarwanda: Umurenge wa Rwinkwavu) is one of the 12
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 Kayonza in the
Eastern Province of
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 ...
.
Geography
Rwinkwavu sector covers an area of 92.32 km
2 and lies at an altitude of about 1,430 m. The sector is divided into the cells
Gihinga,
Mbarara
Mbarara City is a city in the Western Region, Uganda, Western Region of Uganda and the second largest city in Uganda after Kampala. The city is divided into 6 boroughs of Kakoba Division, Kamukuzi Division, Nyamitanga Division, Biharwe Division, ...
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Mukoyoyo and
Nkondo. It borders
Mwiri to the north,
Kabare to the east,
Murama to the south,
Kabarondo to the southwest and
Nyamirama to the west.
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Demographics
The
census in 2022 put the population at 36,774. Ten years earlier, it was 28,225, which corresponds to an annual population increase of 2.7 percent between 2012 and 2022.
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Transport
National Road 25 runs through the eastern half of the sector. A district road branches off to the southwest.
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References
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Sectors of Rwanda
Eastern Province, Rwanda