{"id":388,"date":"2012-09-26T08:30:18","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T08:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fortuneofafrica.com\/ug\/buranga-hot-springs\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T08:30:18","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T08:30:18","slug":"buranga-hot-springs","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/buranga-hot-springs\/","title":{"rendered":"Buranga Hot Springs."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Location<\/strong><br \/>\nThe Buranga springs are located close to Ruwenzori Mountains, at the base of Bwamba escarpment. There are 37 springs which receive the geothermal heat from the deep faults of East African Rift System.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ecosystem<\/strong><br \/>\nThe springs have formed their own small ecosystem with lush forest and swamps around the spring attracting numerous birds and animals. The animals come to lick the salt coming out of the earth.<br \/>\nThere are three \u00a0groups of hot springs located about 700m from each others. The details of these hot springs are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nyansimbe Spring<\/strong><br \/>\nThe spring has a swamp around it can only be accessible during the dry season. This spring<br \/>\nhas developed a carbonate cone with clear pool of hot water (86\u00b0C) in it. The pool has a<br \/>\ndiameter of 30 m, depth is more than 5 m.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Mumbuga Springs<\/strong><br \/>\nThese are numerous hot springs in area 60 x 40 m, all springs are depositing carbonates.<br \/>\nThe springs can be accessed during the dry season. One spring has built 1.5 m tall travertine<br \/>\ncone with terraces. Water from the ground forms some 50 cm high fountain, rising above the<br \/>\npool.\u00a0 Temperature of spring reaches 98.4\u00b0C.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Kagoro Springs<\/strong><br \/>\nThese are on an area of 50 x 15 m in a rainforest enclosure.. The springs have built up to 1.5 m high travertine cones with sulphur deposits at one of them. Temperature of water is 60 &#8211; 91\u00b0 C.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Location The Buranga springs are located close to Ruwenzori Mountains, at the base of Bwamba escarpment. There are 37 springs which receive the geothermal heat from the deep faults of East African Rift System. Ecosystem The springs have formed their own small ecosystem with lush forest and swamps around the spring attracting numerous birds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-388","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 The Buranga springs are located close to Ruwenzori Mountains, at the base of Bwamba escarpment. There are 37 springs which receive the geothermal heat from the deep faults of East African Rift System. Ecosystem The springs have formed their own small ecosystem with lush forest and swamps around the spring attracting numerous birds and&hellip;","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/afrifacto.com\/ug\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}