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Mabamba Bay

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Basin countries
  
Uganda

Area
  
165 km²

Designated
  
September 15, 2006

Established
  
2006

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Surface elevation
  
1,130 metres (3,710 ft)

Mabamba Bay is a wetland on the edge of Lake Victoria, northwest of the Entebbe peninsula.

Conservation

Mabamba is one of Uganda's 33 Important Bird Areas and since 2006 a Ramsar-listed wetland of international importance. Key protected bird species in Mabamba are the shoebill, the blue swallow and the papyrus gonolek.

References

Mabamba Bay Wikipedia