page_title: List of lakes of Rwanda
section_title: Lakes
hierarchical_section_title: List of lakes of Rwanda / Lakes
caption_attribution_description: Topographic map of Rwanda. Created with GMT from publicly released SRTM data.
context_page_description: The main lakes within, or bordered by, Rwanda are as follows:
context_section_description: Lake Kivu, between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo to the west, is by far the largest
  Lake Muhazi, about twenty kilometres east of Kigali: a long, narrow lake running roughly east–west and extending north and south into a number of tributary valleys
  Lake Ihema, in the Akagera National Park in the far east of the country, by the border with Tanzania
  Lake Rweru in the south-east, which is shared with Burundi
  Lake Burera, a mountain lake in the north (1862 metres above sea level)
  Lake Ruhondo, just to the south of Lake Burera, separated from it by a spine of hills
  Lake Mugesera, about 30 km south-east of Kigali, is a narrow lake consisting of five east–west bays joined at the western side
  Lake Cyohoha South, south of Kigali on the border with Burundi
  There are a number of smaller, shallow lakes in the flat, swampy region between Lake Mugesera and Lake Rweru.
caption: A topographic map of Rwanda showing some of the lakes. Lake Muhazi is apparently too narrow to show up on this map.
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