Wapenamanda District

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Wapenamanda District
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Location of Enga Province
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Wapenamanda District
Location within Papua New Guinea
Coordinates: 05°38′36″S143°53′43″E / 5.64333°S 143.89528°E / -5.64333; 143.89528
Country Papua New Guinea
Province Enga Province
Capital Wapenamanda
Area
  Total
1,042 km2 (402 sq mi)
Population
 (2011 census)
  Total
71,797
  Density69/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+10 (AEST)

Wapenamanda District is a district in Enga Province of Papua New Guinea. Its capital is Wapenamanda. The population of the district was 71,797 at the 2011 census. [1] Wapenamanda Airport, the only airport in Enga Province is located in Wapenamanda Town. Air Niugini and PNG Air service flights daily to Wapenamanda out of Port Moresby.

There are three secondary schools in the district which are St Paul's Lutheran Secondary School, Highlands Lutheran International School and the newly created Wapenamanda Foursquare Secondary.

Wapenamanda is considered one of the province's food baskets. The landscape includes plateaus, valleys, gorges and ravines. The lower Lai basin is a fertile valley towards the Sepik river. To the south of those gorges lie the Minamb valley.

Wapenamanda is divided into two Local Level Governments – Wapenamanda Rural and Tsak LLG. Tsak is more populous. The road network is being slowly improved. Power is slowly being connected, starting with Tsak. The road to Tsak has been sealed. Lowerlai, with a population of about 11,000 people, has not benefited from the power projects. The road network into lower is also attended to on a piecemeal basis. Digicel mobile communication towers cover 60% of the district. Constituents who reside in lower-lying areas suffer from low bandwidth and network connectivity problems.

Wapenamanda has one hospital, the Mambisanda Immanuel Hospital run by the Good News Lutheran Church. Law and order is maintained by and self-balancing local leadership structure.

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