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Bunyamwera
Bunyamwera is a town in Bundibugyo District, Uganda. It lies just outside of Rwenzori Mountains National Park, which is to the south. The town is north of Kagugu, southeast of Bunyana, and southwest of Butama. Other nearby settlements include Bundimbuga, 1½ km north, and Bundikahondo, 2 km northwest. The peak of Busunga is 6 km northwest, Kyabwageya's peak is 10 km east, and Kinera's peak is 10 km east. The nearest hospital, Kasulenge Health Center II, is 9 km northeast.

In the 1950s, Bunyamwera was considered a Konzo spur village, and children there went to primary school in the parish of Mutunda.

Bunyamwera parish includes two hydropower plants, Ndugutu and Sindila.

Bunyamwera is where Bunyamwera orthobunyavirus was first isolated, and it also lends its name to that virus' genus Orthobunyavirus, its family Peribunyaviridae, and its order Bunyavirales.

References

  1. ^ "Bunyamwera". Mapcarta. Archived from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  2. ^ Tibemanya, Jolly; Okolli, Richard (June 2012). "Bundibugyo Local Government Statistical Abstract" (PDF). Uganda Bureau of Statistics. Bundibugyo, Uganda. p. 52. Archived (PDF) from the original on 1 February 2019. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  3. ^ Stacey, Tom (2003). "XV The BLHRS Takes Off". Tribe: The Hidden History of the Mountains of the Moon. London: Stacey International. p. 185. ISBN 1900988763.
  4. ^ Bulafu, Collins Edward; David Mwesigye, Tumusiime; Hårklau, Svein Erik; Owuor, George (8 November 2020). "Status of illegal resource extraction within Rwenzori Mountains National Park, Uganda: Baseline studies near four hydropower projects". African Journal of Ecology. 59 (2): 449–465. doi:10.1111/aje.12823. S2CID 228809768. Retrieved 1 September 2022.
  5. ^ Smithburn, K. C.; Haddow, A. J.; Mahaffy, A. F. (March 1946). "A Neurotropic Virus Isolated from Aedes Mosquitoes Caught in the Semliki Forest". The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. s1-26 (2): 189–208. doi:10.4269/ajtmh.1946.s1-26.189. ISSN 1476-1645. OCLC 677158400. PMID 21020339.
  6. ^ "ICTV 9th Report (2011) Bunyaviridae". International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). Archived from the original on 11 December 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2019. Bunya: from Bunyamwera, place in Uganda, where type virus was isolated.
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