Official Name: | Rutongo |
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: | Rwanda |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Kigali |
Subdivision Type2: | District |
Subdivision Name2: | Gasabo |
Population Urban: | 50.000[1] |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Coordinates: | -1.8175°N 30.0592°W |
Elevation M: | 1579 |
Rutongo is a city on the outskirts of the Kigali urban area in Rwanda. It is about from the capital.
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".;[2] [3]
The city houses the Rutongo Major Propaedeutic Seminary.[4]