Kilombero District

For the river known as Kilombero, see Ulanga River.
Ferry crossing the Kilombero River near Ifakara, Kilombero District

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

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.

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 lowlying 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.

Wards

Kilombero District is administratively divided into thirty five wards:
Chisano Kiberege Masagati Mofu
Chita Kidatu Mbingu Sanje
Idete Kisawasawa Mchombe Uchindile
Ifakara Lumemo Mkula Utengule
Kibaoni Mang'ula Mlimba Msolwa Station
Mang'ula B Mwaya Signal Michenga
Katindiuka Mlabani Viwanja sitini Lipangalala
Namwawala Mngeta Igima Mbasa Ching'anda Kalengakelo Kamwene

NGOs

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".
  3. ↑ "Morogoro Region Socio-Economic Profile" (pdf). The Planning Commission, Dar es Salaam, and The Regional Commissioner's Office, Morogoro. 1997. Archived 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
  5. ↑ Hinde, R., Corti, G., Fanning, E., & Jenkins, R., 1999a, A conservation assessment of large mammal use of miombo woodland, evergreen forest and a teak plantation in the Ulanga Valley, Tanzania, Frontier Tanzania Savanna Research Programme, Technical Report No. 2., unpublished, Frontier Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  6. ↑ Jenkins R., Roettcher, K, Corti, G & Fanning, E, 2000a, Large mammals and teak plantations in the Ulanga Valley, Annual Report, unpublished, Frontier Tanzania, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
  7. ↑ "Organisations located in Kilombrero District - Tanzania". African Development Information.