Rutongo


Rutongo is a city on the outskirts of the Kigali urban area in Rwanda. It is about from the capital.

History

The company Rutongo Mines 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".;
The city houses the Rutongo Major Propaedeutic Seminary.