Nyamagabe District
Shown within Southern Province and Rwanda

Nyamagabe is a district

Districts of Rwanda

The Provinces of Rwanda are subdivided into 30 districts . Each district is in turn divided into sectors. Until 2001, the districts had been called communes...

 (akarere) in Southern Province, Rwanda

Rwanda

Rwanda or , officially the Republic of Rwanda , is a country in central and eastern Africa with a population of approximately 11.4 million . Rwanda is located a few degrees south of the Equator, and is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo...

. Its capital is Gikongoro

Gikongoro

Gikongoro is a city in Nyamagabe district, Southern Province, Rwanda.It was previously part of Gikongoro Province, which has been disestablished....

 city.

Geography, flora and fauna

The district lies between Butare

Butare

Butare is a city in the Southern Province of Rwanda and capital of Huye district. It was the capital of the former Butare Province, Rwanda, that was dissolved on January 1, 2006....

 and Cyangugu

Cyangugu

Cyangugu is a city and capital of the Rusizi district of Western Province, Rwanda. The city lies at the southern end of Lake Kivu, and is contiguous with Bukavu, Democratic Republic of the Congo, but separated from it by the Ruzizi River...

 in the south-west of Rwanda, and contains much of the former Gikongoro Province

Gikongoro Province

Gikongoro Province was one of the former twelve provinces of Rwanda and is situated in the southwest of the country. The former province had an area of some 2,146 square kilometers and its population was estimated at 467,300 prior to its dissolution in January 2006.- External links :*...

, which was disbanded in 2006. It also contains the eastern half of Nyungwe Forest

Nyungwe Forest

Nyungwe Forest National Park is a national park in southwestern Rwanda, located south of Lake Kivu on the border with Burundi. The park was established in 2004 and covers an area of approximately 970 km² of rainforest, bamboo, grassland, swamps, and bogs. The nearest town is Cyangugu, 54 km to the...

, a popular tourist destination, being one of the last remaining forest areas of Rwanda and home to chimpanzee

Chimpanzee

Chimpanzee, sometimes colloquially chimp, is the common name for the two extant species of ape in the genus Pan. The Congo River forms the boundary between the native habitat of the two species:...

s and many other species of primate

Primate

A primate is a mammal of the order Primates , which contains prosimians and simians. Primates arose from ancestors that lived in the trees of tropical forests; many primate characteristics represent adaptations to life in this challenging three-dimensional environment...

.

Sectors

Nyamagabe district is divided into 17 sectors

Sectors of Rwanda

Sectors are the third level administrative subdivision in the African nation of Rwanda. The Provinces of Rwanda are subdivided into 30 districts . Each district is in turn divided into sectors. There are 416 Sectors...

(imirenge): Buruhukiro, Cyanika, Gatare, Kaduha, Kamegeli, Kibirizi, Kibumbwe, Kitabi, Mbazi, Mugano, Musange, Musebeya, Mushubi, Nkomane, Gasaka, Tare and Uwinkingi.