{"id":4004,"date":"2014-06-02T08:39:45","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T08:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/?page_id=4004"},"modified":"2016-06-07T16:53:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T16:53:10","slug":"lakes-burundi","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lakes-burundi\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakes in Burundi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Africa and stretches over 27,834km2. Known as the<strong> \u00b4<\/strong>heart of Africa\u00b4, Burundi is famous for its rich and varied natural landscape characterized by picturesque lakes<\/p>\n<p>The largest body of water in Burundi is the northeastern corner of Lake Tanganyikathe second largest lake in the African continent.About 2 600 km2\u00a0of this lake lie within the boundaries of the country, representing about 8% of its total area.<\/p>\n<p>The lakes are a home to different aquatic life and offer opportunity for fishing as well as boat cruising fortourists while viewing different wildlife<\/p>\n<p>The keylakes in Burundi include the following;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-cohoha\/\">Lake Cohoha<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-rweru\/\">Lake Rweru<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-kanzigiri\/\">Lake Kanzigiri<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-rugwero\/\">Lake Rugwero<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-katshamirinda\/\">Lake Katshamirinda<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-tshohoha\/\">Lake Tshohoha<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-rwihinda\/\">Lake Rwihinda<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/lake-tanganyika\/\">Lake Tanganyika<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burundi is a landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of Africa and stretches over 27,834km2. Known as the \u00b4heart of Africa\u00b4, Burundi is famous for its rich and varied natural landscape characterized by picturesque lakes The largest body of water in Burundi is the northeastern corner of Lake Tanganyikathe second largest lake in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4004","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":8}},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P4Xm5Y-12A","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/burundi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}