List of lakes of Rwanda

The main lakes within, or bordered by, Rwanda are as follows:

Lakes

A topographic map of Rwanda showing some of the lakes. Lake Muhazi is apparently too narrow to show up on this map.

• Lake Kivu, between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, is by far the largest

• Lake Muhazi, about twenty kilometres east of Kigali: a long narrow lake running roughly east-west and extending north and south into a number of tributary valleys

• Lake Ihema, in the Akagera National Park in the far east of the country, by the border with Tanzania

• Lake Rweru in the south-east, which is shared with Burundi

• Lake Burera, a mountain lake in the north (1862 metres above sea level)

• Lake Ruhondo, just to the south of Lake Burera, separated from it by a spine of hills

• Lake Mugesera, about 30km south-east of Kigali, is a narrow lake consisting of five east-west bays joined at the western side

• Lake Cyohoha South, south of Kigali on the border with Burundi

There are a number of smaller, shallow lakes in the flat, swampy region between Lake Mugasera and Lake Rweru.

References

• The IUCN Directory of African Wetlands by Robert Mepham (Google-books link at [1])
• http://www.gov.rw/government/geography.html