Bulindo
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Bulindo is a neighborhood{{cite web| url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/Magazines/HomesandProperty/Know-your-hood---Bulindo--A-suburb-sprouting-from-farmland/689858-2115752-k02hdi/index.html | title=Know your hood : Bulindo, A suburb sprouting from farmland | newspaper=Daily Monitor |accessdate=19 July 2017 |date=18 December 2013| first=Emmy |last=Omongin |location=Kampala}} in Kira Municipality, Kyaddondo County, Wakiso District, in the Central Region of Uganda.
Location
Bulindo is bordered by Nakweero to the north, Kitukutwe to the northeast, Kigulu to the east, Mulawa to the south, Kitikifumba to the southwest, and Kazinga to the west. The neighborhood is about {{convert|3|km|0}} north of the headquarters of Kira Town Council.{{google maps| url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Kira+Town/Bulindo/@0.4084376,32.6332335,15z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x177db72845ed7caf:0x852ac64a8f3b48e8!2m2!1d32.638695!2d0.3972251!1m5!1m1!1s0x177db6c4aed30b5d:0x80b6faf8044890d5!2m2!1d32.6439937!2d0.4193603!3e0|title=Road Distance Between Kira Town Centre And Bulindo In Uganda |access-date=5 June 2021}} This is approximately {{convert|17|km|0}}, by road, northeast of Kampala, the capital of and largest city in Uganda.{{google maps | url=https://www.google.com/maps/dir/Central+Bank+of+Uganda,+37%2F45,+Plot+17%2F19+Kampala+Road,+Kampala/Bulindo/@0.3668908,32.5805333,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x177dbc80f7f01c39:0x6b9adae1ecae2406!2m2!1d32.5803725!2d0.3142584!1m5!1m1!1s0x177db6c4aed30b5d:0x80b6faf8044890d5!2m2!1d32.6439937!2d0.4193603!3e0 | title=Road Distance Between Central Kampala, Uganda And Bulindo, Uganda |access-date=5 June 2021}} The coordinates of Bulindo are 0°25'14.0"N, 32°38'43.0"E (Latitude:0.420556; Longitude:32.645278).{{google maps| accessdate=16 July 2015| title=Location of Bulindo, Uganda| url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/0%C2%B025'14.0%22N+32%C2%B038'43.0%22E/@0.419738,32.6445243,15z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0:0x0}}
Overview
Before 2001, Bulindo was a residential and farming village. In 2001, a law was passed incorporating the village into the newly created Kira municipality, the second largest urban center in Uganda, with an estimated population of about 180,000 in 2011.{{cite web|publisher=Uganda Bureau of Statistic (UBOS) |url=http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/pdf%20documents/TP52010.pdf |format=PDF |title=Estimated Populations of Ugandan Cities And Towns In 2011 |last=UBOS |accessdate=18 January 2015 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140707231502/http://www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/pdf%20documents/TP52010.pdf |archivedate=7 July 2014 }} Since 2000, Bulindo has developed into a middle-class residential neighbourhood, with planned housing developments and large private farms and ranches. Bulindo is connected to the national power grid and the water pipeline of the National Water and Sewerage Corporation.{{cite web | accessdate=19 July 2017 | url=http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/blending/kampala-water-lake-victoria-water-and-sanitation-sector-watsan_en | last=EC | publisher=European Commission (EC) | date=21 July 2015 | title=Kampala Water - Lake Victoria Water And Sanitation Sector (WATSAN)}}{{cite web | title=Kampala Water - Lake Victoria Water and Sanitation Project (Uganda) |author=EIB | url=http://www.eib.org/products/blending/mri/kampala-water-lake-victoria-water-and-sanitation-project-uganda.htm | accessdate=19 July 2017 |
date=27 October 2016 | publisher=European Investment Bank (EIB)}}
Points of interest
These are some of the points of interest in or near Bulindo: (a) Bulindo Catholic Church, a place of worship affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church, (b) Shimoni Teacher Training College, a national elementary teacher training college with attached demonstration school, sitting on {{convert|25|acre|0}} in nearby Kitikifumba.{{cite web |
accessdate=3 August 2017 |location=Kampala | date=7 January 2011 | url=http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/-/688334/1085296/-/cjc3inz/-/index.html | title=Shimoni Teachers College opens | first=Al-Mahdi | last=Ssenkabirwa | newspaper=Daily Monitor}} The Kira-Nakweero road passes through Bulindo in a general north to south direction.{{google maps| title=Location of Kira-Nakweero Road in Bulindo| url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/0%C2%B025'14.3%22N+32%C2%B038'40.5%22E/@0.420635,32.644578,197m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d0.420635!4d32.644578| accessdate=3 August 2017}}
See also
References
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External links
- [http://allafrica.com/stories/201101050032.html Uganda: New Shimoni Teachers' College Opens in Kira Town]
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