Katwe

Katwe is famed for the salt of its crater lake, near Lake Edward in the western Great Lakes region. Salt was extracted from the brine and exchanged across a wide inland network. By the eighteenth century, Katwe and nearby Kisenyi supplied different kinds of salt, including cooking salt and rock salt for livestock. Local tradition remembered a hunter, Murogo, as the discoverer of the deposits, and his descendants as ritual guardians of the works.