Mutambara, Burundi
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Mutambara is a city in southwest Burundi
, in Bururi Province
. It is sited on the shores of Lake Tanganyika
, to the north of Nyanza Lac
and southwest of Bururi
.
Burundi
Burundi , officially the Republic of Burundi , is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Eastern Africa bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and south, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west. Its capital is Bujumbura...
, in Bururi Province
Bururi Province
Bururi is one of the seventeen provinces of Burundi. It is also the largest. It includes the city of Bururi, the provincial capital, and the city of Rumonge which sits on the shores of Lake Tanganyika...
. It is sited on the shores of Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika
Lake Tanganyika is an African Great Lake. It is estimated to be the second largest freshwater lake in the world by volume, and the second deepest, after Lake Baikal in Siberia; it is also the world's longest freshwater lake...
, to the north of Nyanza Lac
Nyanza Lac
Nyanza Lac is a city in southern Burundi, in Makamba Province. It is located on the shores of Lake Tanganyika, to the south of Mutambara and close to the border with Tanzania.-References:...
and southwest of Bururi
Bururi
Bururi is a city located in southern Burundi. It is the capital city of Bururi Province and has around 20.000 inhabitants in 2007.In 1972, local Hutu gendarmes in Bururi drove out military and civil government control of the Tutsi military regime of Micombero. A republic was declared, and a week...
.