Commune of Ntega
The commune of Ntega is a commune of Kirundo Province in northern Burundi.
Location
The Commune of Ntega has an area of and had a population of 98,665 as of the 2008 census.Environment
Lake Narungazi is in the Commune of Ntega, west of Lake Rwihinda and south of Lake Nagitamo.It covers an area of in a valley at an altitude of bordered by the collines Nyange–Kiriringanire and Kanyarwe–Mwunguko, which reach an altitude of.
It is in the Nyavyamo cyperus papyrus swamp which extends east from the Akanyaru River and includes Lake Nagitamo and Lake Rwihinda.
Upstream of Lake Narungazi, the Nyavyamo marsh is used for the cultivation of sorghum.
The southern branch of Lake Narungazi, between the collines of Kanyago the east and Mugendo to the west, extends through Narungazi marsh, which is used for cultivation of rice up to the edge of the water, apart from some fragments of Typha domingensis and some tufts of Phragmites.
Lake Mwungere is in the Commune of Ntega near the villages of Mariza and Mugina.
It is connected by wetlands to the Akanyaru River.
Administrative divisions
The capital lies at Ntega.The commune is divided into the following collines, from north to south,