Butiaba
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| District | Masindi |
| Geographical location | 1 ° 49 ′ N , 31 ° 20 ′ E |
| surface | ? |
| population | 3,096 (2005 estimate) |
| Population density | ? Inhabitants / km² |
| medium height | 632 m |
| Time zone | UTC +3
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| Telephone code | (+256) 0465 |
 
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Butiaba is a fishing village on Lake Albert in northwest Uganda .
history
In the 1930s, the place was a ferry and trading port with regular shipping connections to the south bank of Lake Albert, the Congo and Sudan . On the bank was a relay station of the British airboat line from Cairo to Cape Town . In 1951, the outdoor shots for the feature film African Queen with Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart were shot here. Ernest Hemingway had an accident in 1954 when a propeller plane took off on the town's small airfield and sustained considerable head injuries. In 1962, the port facilities were destroyed in a severe flood and no longer rebuilt.
present
The main employers are the fishing boats and the fish factory. After processing, the catch is brought to Kampala in refrigerated trucks every day . Butiaba is located on the tourist route from Fort Portal via Hoima to Murchison Falls National Park , which is developed as an unpaved all-weather road.
literature
- Andrew Roberts: Uganda's Great Rift Valley , New Vision, Kampala 2006, ISBN 9970-11-300-3 .