| Kaniga | |
| Pushpin Map: | Burundi |
| Subdivision Type1: | Country |
| Subdivision Name1: | Burundi |
| Subdivision Type2: | Province |
| Subdivision Name2: | Bururi Province |
| Source1 Coordinates: | -3.4144°N 29.7044°W |
| Mouth: | Mubarazi River |
The Kaniga River (French: Rivière Kaniga) is a river in Burundi.
The Kaniga River is a tributary of the Mubarazi River, which it joins from the right (south) to the west of Busangana.It is one of the four principal rivers that drain the Mwaro Region.These are the Mubarazi and Kaniga in the northwest, the Kayokwe in the northeast and the Mushwabure in the southwest, centre and southeast.
The Kaniga forms to the east of Gatsinga, Mwaro Province, and flows north-northeast parallel to highway RP 112 for its whole length.The upper section of the river forms the boundary between Muramvya Province and Mwaro Province.The lower section flows north along the boundary between Muramvya Province and Gitega Province, and is crossed by the RN2 highway before entering an area of marshes and joining the Mubarazi River.
In the Commune of Ndava, Mwaro Province, the climate is too cold for rice.Finger millet is the main crop in most of the marshes, rather than sweet potatoes and corn.The millet is planted after the floods of the rainy season.
In September 2023 rain, hail and violent wind damaged the banana plantations and fields of sweet potatoes and potatoes in the Kaniga marsh of the Kirambi village in the Commune of Rusaka, Mwaro Province.
The Mubarazi-Kaniga marshes cover about in the Mbuye and Rutegama communes of Muramvya Province, and produce almost 1,000 tons of rice annually. The flow of the Mubarazi is controlled above the marshes by an irrigation dam.
The preliminary report on implementation of the Strategic Framework for the Fight against Poverty 2012-2015 gen2 (CSLP II), recommended construction of three micro hydroelectric power stations, including the Nyamyotsi Hydroelectric Power Station (350 kilowatts) in Kibimba.In September 2015 the new governor of the Mwaro Province, Jean Marie Nyakarerwa, inherited the project to build a dam in Nyamyotsi in the Commune of Ndava on the Kaniga river to supply the Kibimba village.The Nyamyotsi plant on the Kaniga came into service in 2018.