1.6. Description of the zone
of study of the District of Huye
1.6.1. Principal geographical
characteristics
1.6.2. General aspect
Huye is one of the eight districts which make the Province of
the South; it is consisted fourteen sectors: Mbazi, Kinazi, Simbi, Maraba,
Rwaniro, Rusatira, Huye, Gishamvu, Mukura, Ruhashya, Tumba, Kigoma, Ngoma,
Karama.
1.6.3. Relief
The District of Huye is located on a central plate with a
topographic unit of collinear type in its central part, in the East and the
South. It occupies the tabular tops of the hills with an average altitude of
1700 m; it goes down up to 1450 m towards the farm from Songa. In its Western
part, it rises as one moves towards the West to culminate with more than 2000 m
at the top of the Huye mount. Bottoms melt marshy are located at an altitude of
1650 m.
1.6.4. Climate and
pluviometry
The District of Huye is characterized by a climate of the
moderate type subequatorial, with an average temperature oscillating around
20oC. Its annual average pluviometric module turns around 1160 mm of rain. As
on the whole of the country, the climate is marked by 4 quite distinct seasons:
a great rain season (semi February - May), a great dry season (June - semi
September), a small rain season (semi September - December) and a small season
dries (January - semi February). Pluviometry is characterized by abundant
precipitations of 1400 mm on average per annum.
1.6.5. Hydrography
The hydrographic network of the District of Huye is consisted
rivers, in the West, one notices the river of Kadahokwa which is directed North
in the South; in the center, the river of Rwamamba is; in the East, there is
the large valley of Rwasave drained by the river of Kihene directed of North in
the South; these rivers are drained towards Migina which is the affluent of the
Akanyaru river; in Western North is the river Mwogo who deverse in Nyabarongo.
The District of Huye is very rich in marshy valleys along the rivers and of the
brooks, which constitutes a potential to be developed.
1.6.6. Grounds
The grounds evolve/move in-depth according to their situation
on the hill; the best grounds are in the marshes (they are sandy and rather
humus-bearing) if those are not enables by the erosion of the hills. The
grounds on the granitic dorsal are the least fertile, they are very low in
humus. The grounds of the central plate are less bad, they are of the koalisol
type, fertile when erosion did not degrade them, and when the humus-bearing
horizon of these grounds is well preserved.
1.6.7. Fauna and flora
The natural vegetation disappeared under the pressure from the
cultures and was replaced by anthropic vegetation i.e. resulting from the
action of the man and it is dominated by the farming plants. The major part of
the grounds is under food crops and, by order, of importance there are the
banana tree, bean, the sorghum, sweet potato and manioc etc... Generally, one
notes an insufficiency of forests and the little which exists requires a
renewal. However, one mainly meets some afforestations made up of eucalyptus
and grévillia. As for the savage animals one finds some especially in
the zone of the station of the ISAR Songa to knowing, the jackal, the gazelle,
rabbit, hare, etc.
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