{"id":377,"date":"2012-09-24T06:55:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-24T06:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/lake-george\/"},"modified":"2012-09-24T06:55:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-24T06:55:09","slug":"lake-george","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/lake-george\/","title":{"rendered":"Lake George"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\nLake George is located in Kasese District Western Uganda with an altitude of 914 m above sea level. The lake ia within Queen Elizabeth National Park and\u00a0 has a surface area of 250 sq km and with an average depth of 2.4 meters. It was named after the British royal family member, Prince George,\u00a0 who\u00a0 later became King George V. Lake George drains to the southwest into Lake Edward through Kazinga Channel. It lies in the western branch of the Great Rift Valley.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Rivers flowing into the lake<\/strong><br \/>\nThe rivers which flows into lake George include the following:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify\">\n<li>Rumi,<\/li>\n<li>Mubuku<\/li>\n<li>Katonga<\/li>\n<li>Nsonge from Rwenzori<\/li>\n<li>Mpanga and<\/li>\n<li>Dura from the northeast.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The outflow out the lake is through Kazinga Channel into\u00a0 Lake Edward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Vegetation<\/strong><br \/>\nThe northern lake shore is lined with papyrus swamp.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Wildlife.<\/strong><br \/>\nWildlife of Lake George include various types of fish and water birds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location Lake George is located in Kasese District Western Uganda with an altitude of 914 m above sea level. The lake ia within Queen Elizabeth National Park and\u00a0 has a surface area of 250 sq km and with an average depth of 2.4 meters. It was named after the British royal family member, Prince George,\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":9,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-377","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/author\/admin\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Location Lake George is located in Kasese District Western Uganda with an altitude of 914 m above sea level. The lake ia within Queen Elizabeth National Park and\u00a0 has a surface area of 250 sq km and with an average depth of 2.4 meters. It was named after the British royal family member, Prince George,\u00a0&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}