This article contains a list of National Cultural Sites in Uganda in the Eastern Region of Uganda as defined by the Uganda Museum. [1] [2] [3]
ID | Site name | Description | District | Location | Original function | Coordinates | Image |
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UG-E-001 | Obalanga Memorial | Mass grave for 365 brutally killed & buried here.commemoration is held 15th-june. | Amuria | ![]() | |||
UG-E-002 | Kaperabyong memorial | Mass grave and site. | |||||
UG-E-003 | ? | Budaka | |||||
UG-E-004 | ? | Bududa | |||||
UG-E-005 | Busoga Hill-Bukoli shrines, Buwunga | Believed to be the origin of Busoga. Visited by women with fertility problems. | Bugiri | ||||
UG-E-006 | Wakooli shrines/palace | A Nsona- Namakoko, Prince Wakoli Kaunhe, King of Bukooli and his father Musitwa Ibrahim’shrines in Nankoma subcounty. | |||||
UG-E-007 | Wakoli’s grave | Kaunhe Wakolis grave near Nsono primary school Namakoko. | |||||
UG-E-008 | Wakoli’s Fort | At Nsona- Namakoko, Bugiri. Site for 1891 – 1893 IBEA | |||||
UG-E-009 | Kirongo shrines of Bukooli | Near Kirongo hill, at Bubugo village. | |||||
UG-E-010 | Iyirimbi forest | Traditional cultural forest resource | |||||
UG-E-011 | Prayer feast tree | In Muterere | |||||
UG-E-012 | Komuge rock art site | Rock art site. | Bukedea | ![]() | |||
UG-E-013 | Bukwa Fossil site | Fossil site on lamitima hill | Bukwa | ||||
UG-E-014 | Khepcwalini Caves | The cave is at Tulel, Kong’ Asis County, and 3 miles out of Ka pron, Bukwa Road . | |||||
UG-E-015 | Kabei caves | Bukwa sub county 38 miles from Kapcholwa. | |||||
UG-E-016 | Sing’ora | Near Bukwa sub county head quarters 3 miles toward Mt Elgon. | |||||
UG-E-017 | ? | ||||||
UG-E-018 | ? | Bulambuli | |||||
UG-E-019 | Bishop Hannington resting place, Budimo village grave | Omutaabi tree | Busia | ![]() | |||
UG-E-020 | He and she Cave (Dubelo) at Kachonga | Butaleja | |||||
UG-E-021 | Hagulu at Mulagi | ||||||
UG-E-022 | ? | ||||||
UG-E-023 | Balawooli? | Buyende | |||||
UG-E-024 | Kigulu hills | Shrines for the Ngobi clan at Namata ,near the railway. | Iganga | ![]() | |||
UG-E-025 | Bubali Buswikira Shrines | Rocks at the burial place of Kintu with Foot marks of Mutyabule .Has become a shrine. | |||||
UG-E-026 | Kabuli hill | Natural site at Nawandala Subcounty. | |||||
UG-E-027 | Bugweri cultural site | At Nondwe is a Place for cultural rituals for Baisemenya. (near Ziraba Muzales Place.) | |||||
UG-E-028 | Namagera rock shrines | Near Budumba Bridge at Namagera village. | |||||
UG-E-029 | Nasuti palaces | Ngobi Kigulus palace and burial site for princess Walusansa,Nyiro,Oboja . | |||||
UG-E-030 | Nhenda hill | At Kigulu , palace and tombs of the Omukama Nantamu. | |||||
UG-E-031 | Bukoyo Footprints | Footprints reported by Ziraba Muzaale in 1967. | |||||
UG-E-032 | Namato Rocks | Male and female near Namato primary school | |||||
UG-E-033 | Jinja Rocks | Origin of name Jinja | Jinja | ![]() | |||
UG-E-034 | Busoga Admin post | Naliyanya | |||||
UG-E-035 | Spire memorial/Mpumudde hill | Historical meeting place for Busoga chiefs. Omukama Kabalega died here while on return from Seychelles exile | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-036 | Speke monument | Monument signifying Speke sighting of the Source of the Nile | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-037 | Mahatima Gandhi monument | Also found at the Source of the Nile | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-038 | Source of the Nile (marker) | Source of life for many great civilizations. The Nile is the longest river in Africa. The source was sighted 1861 by Speke. | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-039 | Igenge palace | At Namasoga is the palace for Kigulu Chiefs ,Izimba. | |||||
UG-E-040 | Bujjagali ancestral site | ![]() | |||||
UG-E-041 | Kyabazinga palace, Nakabango | Personal home of the late Kyabazinga of Busoga, Henry Wako Muloki. | |||||
UG-E-042 | Kyabazingas palace at Wanyange | Official residence of Busogas’ Kyabazingas | |||||
UG-E-043 | Jinja African Commonwealth war Cemetery | 170 burials | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-044 | Jinja European commonwealth war cemetery | 5 burials | |||||
UG-E-045 | Jinja catholic commonwealth cemetery. | 1 burial | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-046 | Jinja Pier | Landing site at Jinja | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-047 | Mwiri hill | Archaeological site | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-048 | Napyangates Burial Ground | Burial Grounds for Lionel Dumore Pennington Leutinant the rptal engineers | Kaberamaido | ||||
UG-E-049 | Akokoma salt / iron site. | Traditional salt making site | |||||
UG-E-050 | Buguge rock shelter/ shrines | In Saaka parish. Home to Lamogi chiefs, first settlement of Mukama | Kaliro (Busoga Royal Town) | ||||
UG-E-051 | Wako Zibondos Mahomo ancestral palace. | At Naigobya village, Gadumile in Bulamogi county, Busoga King, 1893 to 1952.( Palace and tombs of the late Zibondo) Tombs next to Kaliro Primary Teachers College and of Henry Waako Muloki.( | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-052 | Iyingo | In the 16th- Century –Amunyoro Prince Mukama Namutukula came with wife Nawudo and settled in Iyingo | |||||
UG-E-053 | St Gonzaga Gonza shrine . | Namugongo subcounty Bulamogi County. | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-054 | Imarai caves | Madibira Village. | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-055 | Kafamba Rock Rock | Kisinda | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-056 | Nawampiti Rock | Nawaikoke | |||||
UG-E-057 | Historic Muvule Tree | Bumanya | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-058 | Namasagali landing site | Kamuli ,Kabaganda near Nasagali college | Kamuli | ![]() | |||
UG-E-059 | Budhumbula Royal Tombs and Mausoleum. | I)Yosiya K Nadiope ii)Sir William Wilberforce Nadiope iii) Dr Anold Nadiope’s burial grounds. Nabiwigulu subcounty Kamuli District." | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-060 | Budiope Tombs | ||||||
UG-E-061 | Nnenda hill ,Kagulu | Kagulu Sub-county in Budiope. | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-062 | Itanda Falls | ![]() | |||||
UG-E-063 | Mise caves | Cultural site near Sipi falls | Kapcworwa | ||||
UG-E-064 | Kapyopyoni site | Farm house and archaeological site at Kirwat. | |||||
UG-E-065 | Kaproron | Kong ‘asis Headquarters, 14 miles from Kapchorwa it over looks Mt Debesian in Karamoja and Kapenguria & Turkana parts of Kenya. | |||||
UG-E-066 | Ngwat | At Chema, sipi. One mile out of Mbale-Kapchorwa road | |||||
UG-E-067 | Munarya Caves | Over looks sipi rest camp | |||||
UG-E-068 | Kapter, | Kapchorwa headquarters salt rock for herdsmen\ Ramkot, Sikeryo,Chepkoikoch | |||||
UG-E-069 | Tabikwat and Kabungolo | Kaproron subcounty | |||||
UG-E-070 | ? | Katakwi | |||||
UG-E-071 | ? | Kibuku | |||||
UG-E-072 | Nyero rock paintings | Rock art | Kumi | ![]() | |||
UG-E-073 | Mukongoro paintings. | Rock art | |||||
UG-E-074 | Mukura Memorial | People suffocated in a Container here. | |||||
UG-E-075 | Kopege, Kakungulu fort | Near Kopege(oleicho)primary school | |||||
UG-E-076 | Obwini rock paintings | Ayama village, Kumi, orumi primary school. | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-077 | ? | Kween | |||||
UG-E-078 | ? | Luuka | |||||
UG-E-079 | ? | Manafwa | |||||
UG-E-080 | Kyando memorial | The place where Bishop Hanington was killed while on his way to Buganda | Mayuge | ||||
UG-E-081 | Fort Thurston Bukaleba | Fort Thurston was built in memory of the three Europeans killed in Lubas fort(nearby) in 1897 by Sudanese soldiers. | |||||
UG-E-082 | Bukaleba caves | Caves that resided soldiers that kept the Lubas ad/Busogas first administrative posts. | |||||
UG-E-083 | Lubas Monument | At Imanyiro built in burnt bricks, at a place where lubas fort stood. | |||||
UG-E-084 | Iyingo Landing site | Fishing village/Market and cultural landscape | |||||
UG-E-085 | Mawuta Forest | Traditional Cultural forest resource | |||||
UG-E-086 | Meru Forest | Traditional Cultural forest resource | |||||
UG-E-087 | Wanumbe Forest | Traditional cultural forest resource | |||||
UG-E-088 | Bumutoto Circumcision site | In Bunghoko Mbale is the official circumcision site for the start of ceremonies. | Mbale | ![]() | |||
UG-E-089 | Budaka fort/residence | Residence of Semei Kakungulu Nabweya near Nabumali high school | |||||
UG-E-090 | Kakungulus tombs | Tombs for the descendants of Kakungulu,near Nabweya primary school | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-091 | Miyingo Cultural Site | ||||||
UG-E-092 | Dolwe Island | Rock paintings ,gongs and carpules near Golofa hills | Namayingo | ![]() | |||
UG-E-093 | Wayasi | On Sigulu island marking the border of Kenya and Uganda. | |||||
UG-E-094 | Namato Rock | At Kigalama, is a Site for the Mukembe clan, has two wells a male and a female | Namutumba | ||||
UG-E-095 | Kapir Rock paintings | Rock art Paintings | Ngora | ![]() | |||
UG-E-096 | Opege fort | One of Kakungulus several forts built 1900 | |||||
UG-E-097 | Mukula Monument | People were massacred ,suffocated in a container. | |||||
UG-E-098 | Onyeri rock paintings | Rock art | |||||
UG-E-099 | Kakoro rock paintings | 3 rock art paintings sites within the granite rock. | Pallisa | ![]() | |||
UG-E-100 | Kakungurus fort | ||||||
UG-E-101 | Nyakiringa teo cultural site | ||||||
UG-E-102 | ? | Serere | |||||
UG-E-103 | Greek river Fossil site | Around greek river are several geological fossil sites. | Sironko | ||||
UG-E-104 | Obwin rock painting | White paintings | Soroti | ||||
UG-E-105 | Soroti Museum | Old Mbale road | |||||
UG-E-106 | Tororo rock and caves | Geological Monument , with rock shelters/ scenic landscape. A tourist attraction . | Tororo | ![]() | |||
UG-E-107 | Commonwealth War Graves | 2nd World War Common wealth war victims Cemetery. | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-108 | Muhana Footmark | At Mulanda, is a footprint and cross on the rock. | ![]() | ||||
UG-E-109 | Tororo mines | Established to exploit cement. | ![]() |
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