Kalambo District

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Kalambo District
District
Kalambo District
Location in Tanzania
Coordinates: 08°18′S 031°31′E / 8.300°S 31.517°E / -8.300; 31.517Coordinates: 08°18′S 031°31′E / 8.300°S 31.517°E / -8.300; 31.517
Country Tanzania
Region Rukwa Region

Kalambo District is one of the four districts of the Rukwa Region of Tanzania, East Africa. The administrative seat is in Matai.[1]

Moshi Chang'a is the District Commissioner.[2]

Economy

Most people are employed in herding and subsistence farming. The major cash crops are maize, sunflowers, beans, cassava and honey.[2] Some people are employed in artisanal mining and traditional fishing.[2]

Roads are poor.


Administrative subdivisions

Constituencies

For parliamentary elections, Tanzania is divided into constituencies. As of the 2010 elections the area for Kalambo District had one constituency:[3]

  • Kalambo Constituency

Divisions

Kalambo District is administratively divided into divisions.

Wards

Kalambo District is administratively divided into seventeen wards:[4]

  • Kalambazite
  • Kasanga
  • Katazi
  • Katete
  • Kisumba
  • Legeza Mwendo
  • Mambwe Kenya
  • Mambwe Nkoswe
  • Matai
  • Mkali
  • Mkowe
  • Mnamba
  • Msanzi
  • Mwazye
  • Mwimbi
  • Sopa
  • Ulumi

Notes

  1. ↑ Staff (9 March 2012). "Tanzania: State Gazettes New Regions, Districts". Daily News (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Siyame, Peti (3 July 2012). "Tanzania: Truance Irks Kalambo DC". Daily News (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). 
  3. ↑ "Organisations located in Rukwa Region - Tanzania". African Development Information. 
  4. ↑ "Postcodes Rukwa Region 55000". Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA). 2012. 


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