{{Infobox settlement |official_name = Rutongo |image_skyline = |nickname= |image_flag = |image_caption = |image_seal = |image_map = |mapsize = 1 |pushpin_map_caption = Map of Rwanda showing the location of Rutongo |pushpin_map = Rwanda |pushpin_label_position = top |subdivision_type = Country |subdivision_name = {{flag|Rwanda}} |subdivision_type1 = Province |subdivision_name1 = City of Kigali |subdivision_type2 = District |subdivision_name2 = Gasabo |subdivision_type3 = |subdivision_name3 = |subdivision_type4 = |subdivision_name4 = |leader_title = |leader_name = |area_magnitude = |area_total_km2 = |area_land_km2 = |area_water_km2 = |population_as_of = |population_urban = 50.000<ref>{{cite web|author=|url=http://www.epsilon-onlus.org/campaigns/centro-nutrizionale-rwanda/ |title=Centro nutrizionale in Rwanda |language=Italian |publisher=epsilon-onlus.org |date= |accessdate=2019-06-02}}</ref> |population_note = |population_total = |population_metro = |timezone = CAT |utc_offset = +2 |coordinates = {{coord|01|49|03|S|30|03|33|E|region:RW|display=inline}} |elevation_m =1579 |latitude = |longitude = |website = |footnotes = }} <!-- Infobox ends !-->
'''Rutongo''' is a city on the outskirts of the Kigali urban area in Rwanda. It is about {{convert|10|km}} from the capital.
== History ==
The Rutongo Mines company mined a deposit of cassiterite. In 1948, in his story ''The New Congo'', the journalist Tom Marvel wrote about this "...beautiful mine, as ''Richesses of Rwanda''".;<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lldIZXfWBVsC&q=rutongo+richesses+du+rwanda&pg=PA72 |title=Rwanda, le mythe des mots |year=2008 |publisher=Gaspard Musabyimana |isbn=9782296041653 |accessdate=2019-06-02}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tincogroup.com/rutongomines.php |title=Rutongo Mines: History |publisher=tincogroup.com |date= |accessdate=2019-06-02}}</ref>
The city houses the Rutongo Major Propaedeutic Seminary.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.eglisecatholiquerwanda.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=236&Itemid=265 |title=Rwanda, le mythe des mots |publisher=Conférence épiscopale du Rwanda |date= |accessdate=2019-06-02}}</ref>
== References == <references />
== Bibliography== *{{in lang|fr}} ''Approche socio-économique : secteur artisanal, Commune de Rutongo'', Association de coopération et de recherche pour le développement (Rwanda), 1987, 194 p.
== External links ==
Category:Kigali Category:Populated places in Rwanda
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