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Rakai District Local
Kooki hills in Kibaale-Bukoora, Rakai District
The degraded hills of Kooki in Rakai District
The most common morphology of the hills comprise of The soils in the Kooki area are dominantly of Ferralsols
round to flat summits that abruptly descend on steep type and its associations. This is the most dominant
convex and straight slopes, ending in relatively gentle and soil type in Uganda, covering about 2/3 of the country.
moderately concave pediments. The pediment slopes show This is a class of soils considered to be the oldest on
an abrupt steepening in their lower sections adjacent to earth; the soils are characterized by low fertility levels
valley floors which are often swampy. and are deeply weathered and leached with little
mineral reserves remaining. Generally, soil distribution
Gemorphologically, Kooki hills are thought to result varies with slope morphology, in that at the summits,
from an upwarped Buganda plateau during early moderately deep to shallow soils often occur; but on
Tertiary, after a long quiescence from the Karoo era the steep convex and straight slopes, soils become very
and subsequent reduction of the plateau landscape by thin with depths varying from bare rocky or weathered
denudation process to a very low relief, the African regolith surfaces to only a few centimeters deep. Further
Surface in this Buganda part of Uganda which, therefore, down on the concave and pediment slopes, respectively,
is sometimes called Buganda surface. The uplift resulted in soil depths increase appreciably often reaching depths of
an elevated and dissected plateau consisting of a series of over 150 cm.
flat-topped hills or their remnants and intervening valleys.
Thus, the landscape was dissected by the rejuvenated On the hill summits and steep upper and middle slopes,
drainage system, leading to a dissected plateau in form of the soils are Plinthic Ferralsols and Hyperskeletic
the present ridges and hills. In some cases, the Kooki hills Leptosols. These associations are dominantly shallow,
are related to the Kigezi-Ankole surfaces (highlands), but loose and skeleteral, with high proneness to erosion.
generally, Rakai hills are regarded as an upwarping of the Most of the former summit laterite capping has been
Buganda surface. removed leaving behind disintegrating boulders and relics
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