Official Name: | Buddo |
Mapsize: | 150px |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Map of Uganda showing the location of Buddo |
Pushpin Map: | Uganda |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Uganda |
Subdivision Type1: | Region |
Subdivision Name1: | Central Uganda |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Wakiso District |
Subdivision Type3: | County |
Subdivision Name3: | Busiro |
Utc Offset: | +3 |
Coordinates: | 0.2561°N 32.4861°W |
Elevation M: | 1300 |
Buddo, sometimes spelled as Budo,[1] [2] is a hill in Wakiso District, Central Uganda. Phonetically, Buddo is the correct spelling in Luganda, the native language of the local area.
Buddo is located in Busiro County, Wakiso District, off of the Kampala-Masaka Highway, approximately 14km (09miles), by road, southwest of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.[3] The coordinates of Buddo Hill are: 00 15 22N, 32 29 10E (Latitude:0.2560; Longitude:32.4860).
With a peak at 1300m (4,300feet) above sea level, Buddo is an important hill in the environs of Kampala. It carries cultural and academic significance. The cultural coronation site, where the Kabaka of Buganda is enthroned in a traditional ceremony is located on Buddo Hill and is known as Naggalabi Buddo. The hill is also the location of several elementary, middle and high schools, including Kings College Budo, a prestigious mixed boarding high school, attended by Buganda's Kings starting with Captain Sir Daudi Chwa II, the thirty-fourth (34th) Kabaka of the Kingdom of Buganda, who reigned between 1897 and 1939.
Buddo boasts of the following landmarks: