Pawir

Pawir, also called Chope, lay near the Nile in northern Bunyoro. Traditions of its Palwo inhabitants recall an early migration across the river under Nyawir, followed by settlements between Lake Albert, the Nile and the Kafu. Their chiefs bore the title rwot, and members of the ruling clan established neighbouring communities. Later accounts remember further migrations and a famine that disrupted Pawir's settlement, carrying some of its people into other parts of northern Bunyoro.