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The National Botanical Gardens of Uganda are in located in Entebbe
Entebbe

Entebbe is a city in Uganda with a population of approximately 90,500. It is located on the shore of Lake Victoria near the capital city of Kampala....
, Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
. They were laid out in 1898 by the first curator A Whyte close to the shore of Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.Lake Victoria is 68,800 square kilometres in size, making it the continent's largest lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second widest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area ....
. The gardens are divided into different zones, including a rainforest
Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750?2000 mm . The monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests....
 zone. This rainforest formed the backdrop to scenes from the Tarzan
Tarzán

Tarz?n was a half-hour syndicated series that aired 1991 in television?1994 in television. In this version of the show, Tarzan was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane turned into a French ecologist....
 films featuring Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller was an United States swimming and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic Games gold medals and one bronze medal....
, shot in the 1940s.








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The National Botanical Gardens of Uganda are in located in Entebbe
Entebbe

Entebbe is a city in Uganda with a population of approximately 90,500. It is located on the shore of Lake Victoria near the capital city of Kampala....
, Uganda
Uganda

The Republic of Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. It is bordered on the east by Kenya, on the north by Sudan, on the west by the Democratic Republic of the Congo, on the southwest by Rwanda, and on the south by Tanzania....
. They were laid out in 1898 by the first curator A Whyte close to the shore of Lake Victoria
Lake Victoria

Lake Victoria or Victoria Nyanza is one of the Great Lakes of Africa.Lake Victoria is 68,800 square kilometres in size, making it the continent's largest lake, the largest tropical lake in the world, and the second widest fresh water lake in the world in terms of surface area ....
. The gardens are divided into different zones, including a rainforest
Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by high rainfall, with definitions setting minimum normal annual rainfall between 1750?2000 mm . The monsoon trough, alternately known as the intertropical convergence zone, plays a significant role in creating Earth's tropical rain forests....
 zone. This rainforest formed the backdrop to scenes from the Tarzan
Tarzán

Tarz?n was a half-hour syndicated series that aired 1991 in television?1994 in television. In this version of the show, Tarzan was portrayed as a blond environmentalist, with Jane turned into a French ecologist....
 films featuring Johnny Weissmuller
Johnny Weissmuller

Johnny Weissmuller was an United States swimming and actor who was one of the world's best swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic Games gold medals and one bronze medal....
, shot in the 1940s.

Notable animals and birds found in the gardens

  • Hornbills
  • Marabou Stork
    Marabou Stork

    The Marabou Stork, Leptoptilos crumeniferus, is a large wading Aves in the stork family Ciconiidae. It breeds in Africa south of the Sahara, occurring in both wet and arid habitats, often near human habitation, especially waste tips....
  • Black-and-white colobus monkeys
    Black-and-white colobus

    Black-and-white colobus are Old World monkeys of the genus Colobus and are closely related to the red colobus monkeys of genus Piliocolobus....