Bufuka

Quality 0.50 · 0 views · Updated 2 months ago

title: "Bufuka" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["populated-places-in-uganda"] topic_path: "general/populated-places-in-uganda" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bufuka" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

Bufuka Village lies on the eastern coast of Lake Bunyonyi, in Kigezi sub-region seven kilometres out of Kabale town, southwestern Uganda. It is a village of 350 people and has three islands under its jurisdiction.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/24/Bufuka.jpg" caption="Bufuka"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/13/Bufuka_Elections.jpg" caption="People in Bufuka"] ::

Being the closest place to the town, the area got the first tourist hotel already in the 1960s. Today the building is a ruin but there are five other operating tourist sites at Bufuka. The trading centre called Rutindo is the site of the bi-weekly market. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Bufuka_peninsula.jpg" caption="The Bufuka peninsula"] ::

The main part of the village is a peninsula where a Protestant church now lies. Bufuka Primary School was an outshoot of the church starting in 1938.

References

Carswell, Grace. (2007). "Cultivating Success in Uganda: Kigezi Farmers & Colonial Policies". James Currey.

::callout[type=info title="Wikipedia Source"] This article was imported from Wikipedia and is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Content has been adapted to SurfDoc format. Original contributors can be found on the article history page. ::