# Rutongo

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'''Rutongo''' is a [city](/source/List_of_cities_in_Rwanda) on the outskirts of the [Kigali](/source/Kigali) urban area in [Rwanda](/source/Rwanda). It is about {{convert|10|km}} from the capital.

== History ==

The Rutongo Mines company mined a deposit of [cassiterite](/source/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 ==
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== 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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