Kibuye, Rwanda | |
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 Genocide Memorial Church with Never Again Display | |
  Kibuye, Rwanda Location in Rwanda | |
| Coordinates: 2°03′42″S29°20′54″E / 2.06167°S 29.34833°E | |
| Country |  Rwanda |
| Admin. Province | Western Province |
| District | Karongi |
| Elevation | 1,457 m (4,780 ft) |
| Population (2012) [1] | |
| • Total | 12,325 |
| Climate | Aw |
Kibuye is a city in Karongi District, and the headquarters of the Western Province in Rwanda.
The city lies on the eastern shores of Lake Kivu, between Gisenyi and Cyangugu, approximately 135 kilometres (84 mi), by road, west of Kigali, the capital and largest city in the country. [2] The geographical coordinates of the town are: 2°03'42.0"S, 29°20'54.0"E (Latitude:-2.061672; Longitude:29.348344). [3]
Kibuye is known as a beach resort and is within driving distance of two national parks. It is home to a genocide memorial marking the massacre of 90% of the town's Tutsi population in the Rwandan Genocide. [4] The Ndaba Falls lie near the city. [5]
Both Kibuye Power Plant 1 [6] and KivuWatt Power Station [7] lie within Kibuye.
The transport system in Rwanda centres primarily around the road network. Paved roads lie between the capital, Kigali, and most other major cities and towns in the country. Rwanda is also linked by road with other countries in the African Great Lakes, via which the majority of the country's imports and exports are made.
Gisenyi, historically rendered as Kisenyi, is the second largest city in Rwanda, located in the Rubavu district in Rwanda's Western Province. Gisenyi is contiguous with Goma, the city across the border in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Tourism in Rwanda is the largest source of foreign exchange earnings in Rwanda and was projected to grow at a rate of 25% every year from 2013-2018. The sector is the biggest contributor to the national export strategy. Total revenues generated from the sector in 2014 alone were USD 305 million. The sector has also attracted direct foreign investments with major international hotel brands setting up shop in the country including Marriot Hotels & Resorts, Radisson Blu, Park Inn by Radisson, Sheraton Hotels and Resorts, Protea Hotels by Marriott, Golden Tulip Hotels, and Zinc. With its new world-class convention center, Rwanda is set to become a regional and international conference hub owing to ever-improving conference facilities, an excellent and expanding transportation network, and straightforward immigration procedures such as the ability for online visa applications, visa-free for all Africans, and a one-tourist visa policy for the EAC.
Muhanga is a district (akarere) in Rwanda. It is found in southern province and its administrative centre is located in the city of Muhanga.
Rubavu District is one of the seven districts (akarere) in Western Province, Rwanda, with a total surface area of 388.4 km2. Its capital is Gisenyi, a large beach resort and border city. The Rubavu Urban area, which includes Gisenyi, Rugerero and other nearby localities, had a 2012 population of 149,209, the second most populous urban area in Rwanda.
Karongi is a district (akarere) in Western Province, Rwanda. The district's capital is Rubengera. However, it comprises Kibuye, provincial capital and a major Rwandan lakeside resort. It is one of the districts with the lowest population density of 380 inhabitants per square kilometre (980/sq mi) as of the 2022 census.
Ngororero District is a district (akarere) in Western Province, Rwanda. Its capital is the town of Ngororero.
Enos Iragaba Kagaba is a Rwandan businessman who, in 2001, was arrested at the Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport when he attempted to gain entry into the United States.
Lake Muhazi is a long thin shallow lake in the east of Rwanda. The bulk of the lake lies in the Eastern Province, with the western end forming the border between the Northern and Kigali Provinces. It is a flooded valley lake, lying predominantly in an east to west direction, but with numerous offshoots in a north to south direction, formerly the location of tributaries. The lake has a concrete dam at the western end, constructed in 1999 to replace an earth dam which had existed since time immemorial. The lake empties into the Nyabugogo River, which flows southwards to Kigali where it meets the Nyabarongo River, part of the upper Nile.
Nyamata is a town in the Bugesera District, southeastern Rwanda. Nyamata literally means 'place of milk' from the two Kinyarwanda words nya- 'of' and amata 'milk'. It is the location of the Nyamata Genocide Memorial, commemorating the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Bugarama is a town in western Rwanda.
Rubengera, also known as Mabanza, is a sector and town in Rwanda. The town is the capital of Karongi District in Western Province, Rwanda.
KivuWatt Power Station is a 26 MW (35,000 hp) methane gas-fired thermal power plant in Rwanda.
Symbion Thermal Power Station is a 56 megawatts (75,000 hp) methane gas-fired thermal power plant located at the Cape of Busororo near the town of Nyamyumba in Rubavu District, in the Western Province of Rwanda.
The Bisesero Genocide Memorial, near Karongi-Kibuye - Western Rwanda, which commemorates the Rwandan genocide in 1994. 40,000 people died here.
Kibuye Power Plant 1, also Kibuye Thermal Power Station 1 (KP1), is a 3.6 megawatts (4,800 hp) methane gas-fired thermal power plant in Rwanda.
Rusumo, is a town in Kirehe District in the Eastern Province of Rwanda.
Rubona, also Rubona Peninsula, is a neighborhood to the south of the city of Gisenyi in Rwanda.
The Gasmeth Energy Gas Works (GEGW) is a planned methane gas extraction and processing plant in Rwanda.
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