Kilombero District

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Kilombero District
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Ferry crossing the Kilombero River
near Ifakara, Kilombero District
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Kilombero District of Morogoro Region
CountryFlag of Tanzania.svg  Tanzania
Region Morogoro Region
Population
 (2002)
  Total321,611
Time zone UTC+3 (EAT)
Area code 023
Website Country Website
Farm employees in the Kilombero flood plain preparing rice seedlings for transplanting Rice seedlings in the Kilomberoflood plain ready for transplanting.jpg
Farm employees in the Kilombero flood plain preparing rice seedlings for transplanting

Kilombero District [1] is a district in Morogoro Region, south-western Tanzania.

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The district is situated in a vast floodplain, between the Kilombero River in the south-east and the Udzungwa-Mountains in the north-west. On the other side of the Kilombero River, in the south-east, the floodplain is part of Ulanga District. The district shares a portion of Udzungwa Mountains National Park with Kilolo District of Iringa.

According to the last census in 2002, the population of Kilombero District is 321,611 [2] The main ethnic groups are Wapogoro, Wandamba, Wabena, and Wambunga and several others in small proportions. [3]

The area is predominantly rural with the semi-urban district headquarters Ifakara as major settlement.

The majority of the villagers are subsistence farmers of maize and rice. There are large plantations of teak wood in the Kilombero and the neighbouring Ulanga districts. In the north-west of the district, Illovo Sugar Company's sugar-cane plantations occupy most of the low lying area. [4] [5] [6]

Administrative subdivisions

Constituencies

For parliamentary elections, Tanzania is divided into constituencies. As of the 2010 elections Kilombrero District had one constituency: [7]

Divisions

Ifakara, Kidatu, Mang´ula, Mlimba, Mngeta.Malinyi,Mahenge.

Wards

Kilombero District is administratively divided into thirty-five wards:
ChisanoKiberegeMasagatiMofu
Chita Kidatu MbinguSanje
IdeteKisawasawaMchombeUchindile
Ifakara LumemoMkulaUtengule
KibaoniMang'ula Mlimba Msolwa Station
Mang'ula BMwayaSignalMichenga
KatindiukaMlabaniViwanja SitiniLipangalala
NamwawalaMngetaIgimaMbasa
Ching'andaKalengakeloKamwene

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References

  1. Kilombero District (Approved) at GEOnet Names Server, United States National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
  2. "2002 Population and Housing Census General Report: Morogoro: Kilombero". Archived from the original on February 11, 2005.
  3. "Morogoro Region Socio-Economic Profile" (pdf). The Planning Commission, Dar es Salaam, and The Regional Commissioner's Office, Morogoro. 1997. Archived (PDF) from the original on 30 May 2004.
  4. Corti, Graham, Fanning, Eibleis, Hinde, Roy, and Jenkins, Richard, 1999. A Conservation Assessment the Amphibian Communities of Miombo Woodland, Evergreen Forest and a Teak (I'ectona Grandis) Plantation in the Ulanga Valley, Tanzania (Technical Report 3). Frontier-Tanzania Savanna Research Programme, Dar es Salaaml
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