# Butanyerera
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{{short description|Province of Burundi}}
{{Infobox settlement
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| settlement_type = [Province](/source/Provinces_of_Burundi)
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| image_caption = The zone of Banga in the [commune of Matongo](/source/commune_of_Matongo) in Butanyerera
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| established_title = Inaugurated
| established_date = 2025
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| seat_type = Capital
| seat = [Ngozi](/source/Ngozi%2C_Burundi)
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| leader_party = [CNDD-FDD](/source/CNDD-FDD)
| leader_title = Governor
| leader_name = [Victor Segasago](/source/Victor_Segasago)
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'''Butanyerera''' is the second most populous of [Burundi](/source/Burundi)'s five [provinces](/source/provinces_of_Burundi). It covers an area of {{convert|4480|km2}} and recorded a population of 2,530,206 in the 2024 Burundian census.][ The capital and the largest town in the province is [Ngozi](/source/Ngozi%2C_Burundi), which reported a population of 39,884 in the 2008 Burundian census.][{{cite web |last=Brinkhoff |first=Thomas |url=https://citypopulation.de/en/burundi/cities/ |title=Burundi |website=City Population |date=8 June 2025 |access-date=3 August 2025}}] Other significant towns in Butanyerera include [Kayanza](/source/Kayanza) and [Kirundo](/source/Kirundo), which reported populations of 21,767 and 10,024 respectively in the 2008 Burundian census.[{{cite report |date=February 2013 |title=Rusumo Falls hydroelectric project – dam and powerplant component: environmental and social impact assessment (ESIA) |url=https://nilebasin.org/sites/default/files/2023-09/41b%2520eflow%2520Rwa%25202013.pdf |chapter=Appendix C |page=7 |publisher=[Artelia](/source/Artelia) |via=[Nile Basin Initiative](/source/Nile_Basin_Initiative) |access-date=3 August 2025}}] to over {{convert|2600|m}} on the [Congo-Nile ridge](/source/Congo-Nile_Divide_(Rwanda-Burundi)) in [Kibira National Park](/source/Kibira_National_Park) in the west.[{{cite web |url=https://bi.chm-cbd.net/fr/protected-areas/parc-nati-kibira |title=Parc National de la Kibira (PNK) |language=fr |website=Biodiversité du Burundi |publisher=[Convention on Biological Diversity](/source/Convention_on_Biological_Diversity) |access-date=3 August 2025}}] The central part of Butanyerera lies on the [Buyenzi](/source/Natural_regions_of_Burundi) plateau,[{{cite encyclopedia |encyclopedia=Lutte antiérosive |last=Duchaufour |first=Hervé |title=Aspects socio-économiques et démographiques du développement durable de la société rurale du Burundi |trans-title=Socio-economic and demographic aspects of sustainable development of Burundiʼs rural society |url=https://books.openedition.org/irdeditions/14249 |year=2012 |publisher=IRD Éditions |doi=10.4000/books.irdeditions.12419 |access-date=3 August 2025 |language=fr |via=[OpenEdition Books](/source/OpenEdition_Books)}}] one of Burundi's major coffee-producing regions.[{{cite book |last=Coste |first=René |year=1992 |title=Coffee: The Plant and the Product |publisher=[MacMillan](/source/Macmillan_Publishers) |location=London |pages=261 |isbn=9780333572962}}]
Butanyerera contains the eastern side of [Kibira National Park](/source/Kibira_National_Park), which protects the [Albertine Rift montane forests](/source/Albertine_Rift_montane_forests) of the [Mugamba natural region](/source/Mugamba_natural_region).[{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5148/ |title=Le parc national de la Kibira |language=fr |date=9 May 2007 |website=[World Heritage Convention](/source/World_Heritage_Convention) |publisher=[UNESCO World Heritage Centre](/source/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Centre) |access-date=3 August 2025}}] The [Protected Aquatic Landscape of the North](/source/Protected_Aquatic_Landscape_of_the_North) [Ramsar site](/source/Ramsar_site) is located in the northeastern part of Butanyerera near the Rwandan border, and protects Lakes [Cohoha](/source/Lake_Cohoha), [Gacamirindi](/source/Lake_Gacamirindi), [Kanzigiri](/source/Lake_Kanzigiri), [Mwungere](/source/Lake_Mwungere), [Nagitamo](/source/Lake_Nagitamo), [Narungazi](/source/Lake_Narungazi), [Rweru](/source/Lake_Rweru), and [Rwihinda](/source/Lake_Rwihinda), as well as [Murehe Forest](/source/Murehe_Forest).[{{cite web |url=https://rsis.ramsar.org/ris/2149 |title=Paysage Aquatique Protégé du Nord |website=Ramsar Sites Information Service |date=14 March 2013 |access-date=3 August 2025}}][{{cite web |url=https://bi.chm-cbd.net/fr/protected-areas/paysa-aquati-prote-bugesera-bi |title=Paysage Aquatique Protégé du Nord |language=fr |website=Biodiversité du Burundi |publisher=[Convention on Biological Diversity](/source/Convention_on_Biological_Diversity) |access-date=3 August 2025}}] Kibira National Park and Lake Rwihinda are on Burundi's list of Tentative [World Heritage Site](/source/World_Heritage_Site)s,[{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/statesparties/bi/ |title=Burundi |website=[World Heritage Convention](/source/World_Heritage_Convention) |publisher=[UNESCO World Heritage Centre](/source/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Centre) |access-date=3 August 2025}}] as are the [royal](/source/List_of_kings_of_Burundi) tombs of Nkiko-Mugamba, located in the zones of Kabarore and Muruta in the [commune of Kayanza](/source/commune_of_Kayanza).[{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/5143/ |title=Les paysages naturels sacrés de Muramvya, de Mpotsa et de Nkiko-Mugamba |language=fr |date=9 May 2007 |website=[World Heritage Convention](/source/World_Heritage_Convention) |publisher=[UNESCO World Heritage Centre](/source/UNESCO_World_Heritage_Centre) |access-date=3 August 2025}}]
==History==
On 16 March 2023, [President of Burundi](/source/President_of_Burundi) [Évariste Ndayishimiye](/source/%C3%89variste_Ndayishimiye) signed into law a reorganization of Burundi's administrative divisions,[{{cite web |last=Ndayishimiye |first=Évariste |author-link=Évariste Ndayishimiye |date=16 March 2023 |title= Loi Organique N° 1/05 du 16 Mars 2023 portant détermination et délimitation des provinces, des communes, des zones, des collines et/ou quartiers de la République du Burundi |language=fr |url=https://www.ceniburundi.bi/loi-organique-n-1-05-du-16-mars-2023-portant-determination-et-delimitation-des-provinces-des-communes-des-zones-des-collines-et-ou-quartiers-de-la-republique-du-burundi |access-date=27 July 2025 |publisher=CENI Burundi}}] which included the reduction of Burundi's provinces from eighteen to five.[{{cite web |url=https://www.senat.bi/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/PROJET-DE-LOI-ORGANIQUE-PORTANT-DELIM-DES-PROVINCES-DE-1-A-50.pdf |title= Projet de loi organique portant délimitation des provinces, des communes, des zones, des collines/quartiers de la République du Burundi |access-date=27 July 2025 |publisher=[Senate of Burundi](/source/Senate_of_Burundi)}}] Butanyerera was created from the merger of the former provinces of [Kayanza](/source/Kayanza_Province), [Kirundo](/source/Kirundo_Province) and [Ngozi](/source/Ngozi_Province), as well as parts of the former [commune of Bukeye](/source/commune_of_Bukeye) in the province of [Muramvya](/source/Muramvya_Province), namely the zone of Busangana and the [collines](/source/Collines_of_Burundi) of Busekera, Kigereka and Shumba in the zone of Bukeye.[{{Cite web |date=4 July 2025 |title=Senate approves Five New Provincial Governors After Major Administrative Reform |url=https://breakingburundi.com/burundi-senate-approves-five-new-provincial-governors-after-major-administrative-reform/ |access-date=3 July 2025 |website=Breaking Burundi}}][{{Cite web |last=Manirakiza |first=Patrick |date=6 July 2025 |title=Burundi's new Governors sworn in following major provincial reforms |url=https://www.burunditimes.com/burundis-new-governors-sworn-in-following-major-provincial-reforms/ |access-date=27 July 2025 |website=Burundi Times}}]
Butanyerera was previously the name of a chiefdom created in 1959 from the southern part of the chiefdom of Buyenzi in the territory of Ngozi, which [Louis Rwagasore](/source/Louis_Rwagasore) briefly administered.[{{cite book |editor-last=Deslaurier |editor-first=Christine |translator-last=Nizigiyimana |translator-first=Domitien |year=2012 |title=Paroles et écrits de Louis Rwagasore, leader de l'indépendance du Burundi |language=fr |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bGWVGt0sgFEC&pg=PA111 |publisher=[Éditions Karthala](/source/%C3%89ditions_Karthala) |pages=111, 227 |isbn=978-2-8111-0701-7 |access-date=3 August 2025}}]
==Communes==
Butanyerera is divided into eight communes: [Busoni](/source/Commune_of_Busoni), [Kayanza](/source/Commune_of_Kayanza), [Kiremba](/source/Commune_of_Kiremba), [Kirundo](/source/Commune_of_Kirundo), [Matongo](/source/Commune_of_Matongo), [Muhanga](/source/Commune_of_Muhanga), [Ngozi](/source/Commune_of_Ngozi), and [Tangara](/source/Commune_of_Tangara).