Ruzibazi River

Ruzibazi River
Native name	French: Rivière Ruzibazi
Location
Country	Burundi
Province	Bujumbura Rural Province, Bururi Province, Rumonge Province
Physical characteristics
Mouth
• location	Lake Tanganyika
• coordinates	3.73170°S 29.31350°E / -3.73170; 29.31350

The Ruzibazi River (French: Rivière Ruzibazi) is a river in Burundi.

Course

The RuziBazi River rises to the east of Mukike on the border between Bujumbura Rural Province and Bururi Province. It flows along this border in a generally south-southeast direction to the border between Rumonge Province and Bururi Province, which it defines for a short distance, then turns west and flows to its mouth on Lake Tanganyika, which it enters to the south of Magara.

The Monge Forest Nature Reserve contains a remnant of natural Afro-montane forest on the hills of the southern extension of the Congo-Nile ridge, covering parts of the communes of Mukike, Muhuta and Bugarama. Some of the streams flow into the Ruzibazi River, while others flow into the Nile Basin.

Hydroelectricity

The 15MW Ruzibazi Hydroelectric Power Station is in Rutumo colline, Minago zone in the Commune of Rumonge. The dam is on the Ruzibazi River between the Commune of Bugarama and the Commune of Rumonge. Construction by the Chinese company Sinohydro began in October 2018 and was completed ahead of schedule in July 2022. It was inaugurated on 6 September 2022 in a ceremony attended by Evariste Ndayishimiye, President of Burundi.

See also

• List of rivers of Burundi

Sources

• Niyonkuru, Apollinaire (December 2019), Cartes georeferencees des reserves naturelles forestieres de Monge, de Nkayamba, de Rumonge, de Kigwena et de Vyanda (PDF) (in French), United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, retrieved 2024-08-27
• Ntahondi, Nathan (8 September 2022), "Province de Rumonge : Le chef de l'Etat inaugure la centrale hydroélectrique de Ruzibazi", Le Renouveau, retrieved 2024-08-27
• "Relation: Ruzibazi (17502778)", OenStreetMap, retrieved 2024-08-27