[2] A Biodiversity and Eco-Tourism Centre funded by the Global Environmental Facility and UNDP serves the lake.

[4] Lake Opeta and its surrounding swamps are located in eastern Uganda, 25 km north-east of Kumi town.

The Ramsar site stands 1,050 m above sea level and covers an area of 68,913 hectares.

The wetland system represents the easternmost part of the Lake Kyoga basin.

The Lake Opeta wetlands marks the southern limits of the vast, arid region of Karamoja which extends along Uganda's eastern flank between Mount Elgon and the distant Sudan border, nearly 300 km to the north.