List of lakes in Rwanda

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

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 (also called Mohasi), 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, on the Tanzania border
• Lake Rweru (also called Rugwero) in the south-east - most of this lake lies in Burundi
• Lake Bulera (also called Burera) in the north of the country high in the mountains (1862 metres above sea level)
• Lake Ruhondo (also called Luhondo) just to the south of Lake Bulera, separated from it by a spine of hills
• Lake Mugesera, about thirty kilometres south-east of Kigali and about 15km north of Lake Rweru; this narrow lake consists of five east-west bays joined at the western side
• Lake Cyohoha Sud (also called Tshohoha South), exactly south of Kigali and on the Burundi border

There are a number of smaller, very shallow lakes between Mugasera and Rweru; the region is very flat and swampy.

References

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