Kigumba

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'''Kigumba''' is a town in [[Kiryandongo District]], northwestern [[Uganda]]. It is one of the urban centers in the district. The other urban centres in Kiryandongo District include: (a) [[Karuma]] b) [[Kiryandongo]] (c) Bweyale and (d) [[Masindi Port]].

==Location== [[File:A petrol station.jpg|thumb|kigumba town]] Kigumba is located approximately {{convert|40|km|0}}, by road, northeast of [[Masindi]] (pop. 110,500 in 2020), the nearest large city.<ref>{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Masindi/Kigumba/@1.7498547,31.7231894,11z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x177ad1f876a662b7:0x34bff5413c2a88cf!2m2!1d31.7138458!2d1.6873134!1m5!1m1!1s0x177aeaac42bf4473:0x19b588dc190ad5cc!2m2!1d32.0127067!2d1.8128226!3e0 |title=Road Distance Between Masindi, Uganda And Kigumba, Uganda |access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref> This location lies approximately {{convert|200|km|0}}, by road, north-northwest of [[Kampala]], the [[Capital city|capital]] and largest city in Uganda.<ref>{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kampala/Kigumba/@1.0820818,31.9983004,7.25z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x177dbc0f9d74b39b:0x4538903dd96b6fec!2m2!1d32.5825197!2d0.3475964!1m5!1m1!1s0x177aeaac42bf4473:0x19b588dc190ad5cc!2m2!1d32.0127067!2d1.8128226!3e0 | title=Road Distance Between Kigumba, Uganda And Kampala, Uganda | access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref> Kigumba lies approximately {{convert|10|km|0}}, by road, south of Kiryandongo, where the district headquarters are located.<ref>{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kiryandongo+District+Headquarters,+Kikube/Kigumba/@1.8387686,32.0784192,11.75z/data=!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x177a9419b4976759:0xed9591ab9f060d5c!2m2!1d32.063964!2d1.877655!1m5!1m1!1s0x177aeaac42bf4473:0x19b588dc190ad5cc!2m2!1d32.0127067!2d1.8128226!3e0 |title=Road Distance Between Kigumba, Uganda And Kiryandongo District Headquarters, Uganda | access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref> The coordinates of the town are:01 48 54N, 32 00 36E (Latitude:1.8150; Longitude:32.0100).<ref>{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/1%C2%B048'54.0%22N+32%C2%B000'36.0%22E/@1.8185536,32.0053536,2796m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0xc74b9eef71ed744!8m2!3d1.815!4d32.01 |title=Location of Kigumba, Uganda |access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref>

==Overview== Kigumba lies at the location where the highway from [[Kampala]] to [[Gulu]] through Kibangya and Rwekunye joins the highway from [[Masindi]] to [[Gulu]]. It is a busy transit point. Established in the 1950s, the town is home to about 100 [[Uganda]]n and [[Kenya]]n ethnicities. In 2009, the town attained Municipal council status. The municipality consists of the following neighborhoods: (a) Old Kigumba (b) Naguru (c) Kigaragara (d) Kitwanga, the [[central business district|CBD]] (e) Kihura I (f) Kihura II and (g) Kabukye. Most of the developments are in the ''Kitwanga'' neighborhood. Here one can find the town council offices, financial institutions, factories, restaurants and most bars. The booming trade, has also attracted [[India|Indian]], [[China|Chinese]] and [[South Sudan]]ese traders, who have established businesses, including food processing plants.<ref name="Bones"/>

==Organizational structure== [[File:Kigumba Town Council Offices.JPG|thumb|Kigumba Town Council Offices]] The political head of the town is the LC III Chairperson who is elected to a five-year term by universal adult suffrage across the six [[Ward (country subdivision)|ward]]s. The supreme policy-making organ is the [[Town Council]], composed of 12 elected councilors. The technical staff of the [[municipality]] is headed by the [[town clerk]], Mr. Akugizibwe Gabriel under whom there are several [[municipal]] departments.

As of August 2014, the LC III chairman of the Town Council is Mr. [[Karubanga Jacob|Karubanga Jacob Ateenyi]] and the town clerk is Mr. Akugizibwe Gabriel

==Population== The census in 2002 enumerated the population at 8,439 people. In 2014, the national population census and household survey put the population of Kigumba at 18,625. In July 2020, the [[Uganda Bureau of Statistics]] estimated the midyear population of the town at 22,000. The population agency calculated that the population of the town had increased at an average annual rate of 2.98 percent, between 2014 and 2020.<ref name="KGMB">{{cite web| url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/uganda/cities/ |title=The population of all Ugandan cities and towns with more than 15,000 inhabitants according to census results and latest official projections |work=Citypopulation.de |date=14 June 2020 | author=Uganda Bureau of Statistics |access-date=21 May 2022}}</ref> {{Historical populations| 2002|8,439|2014|18,625|2020|22,000|||align=none|footnote=source:<ref name="KGMB"/>}}

==Economic activities== Many women in the town engage in such activities as farming, road-side groceries, market vending, restaurants, hair care, and health care clinics. Men are mainly engaged in wholesale and retail merchandising, taxi driving and [[boda boda]] ([[motorcycle]] and [[bicycle]]) for-hire transportation. Increasingly, residents of Kigumba Town are employed in salaried and non-salaried positions at the district headquarters in [[Kiryandongo|Bweyale]]. <ref name="Bones">{{cite web|newspaper=[[New Vision]] (Kampala)| url=http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/638436-the-trees-were-as-hard-as-bones-thus-the-name-kigumba.html|title=The Trees Were As Hard As Bones, Thus The Name Kigumba|date=26 December 2012|accessdate=28 February 2015}}</ref>

== Pollution ==

==Points of interest== [[Masindi]], the largest town in the [[Bunyoro sub-region|sub-region]], lies approximately {{convert|45|km|mi}}, by road, to the southwest of Kigumba. The district headquarters at [[Kiryandongo]], are located approximately {{convert|8|km|mi}}, north of Kigumba. Located within the town itself is [[Kigumba Petroleum Institute]] (KPI), a tertiary institution of education belonging to the [[Government of Uganda|Ugandan government]]. The Institute occupies premises that formerly housed, [[Uganda Cooperative College]], which has now relocated to the [[Eastern Region, Uganda|Eastern Uganda]]n town of [[Tororo]]. KPI has now been elevated to University status.<ref>{{cite web|first=Frederick|last=Kivabulaya|date=16 April 2011|accessdate=15 April 2014|url=http://ugandaradionetwork.com/a/story.php?s=32992| publisher=Uganda Radio Network Online|title=Kigumba Petroleum Institute To Become University - Minister Lokeris}}</ref> Kigumba Central Market is the largest fresh-food market in town. [[Stanbic Bank (Uganda) Limited]], the largest commercial bank in [[Uganda]], by assets and branches, maintains a branch in Kigumba.

==See also== * [[Kigumba Petroleum Institute]] * [[Kiryandongo District]] * [[Bunyoro sub-region]]

==References== {{reflist}}

==External links== * [http://www.maplandia.com/uganda/masindi/kibanda/kigumba/ Kigumba Satellite Map at Maplandia.com] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110727010256/http://www.education.go.ug/Uganda_Rwanda_Exhibition/KIGUMBA%20BROCHURE.pdf Uganda Cooperative College Kigumba]

[[Category:Populated places in Uganda]] [[Category:Cities in the Great Rift Valley]] [[Category:Kiryandongo District]]