Kalambo District

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] The Kalambo River flows through the district and its mouth on Lake Tanganyika is about 15 km south of the town of Kasanga.[2]

Kalambo District Council was officially established on 23 December 2012 after it was split off from the Sumbawanga District Council.[3] Moshi Chang'a was the first District Commissioner,[4] who served until his death in a auto accident in April 2014.[5]

Economy

Most people are employed in herding and subsistence farming. The major cash crops are maize, sunflowers, beans, cassava and honey.[4] Some people are employed in artisanal mining and traditional fishing.[4] There are copper deposits at Kasanga and Kapapa.[6]

Administrative subdivisions

Constituencies

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

Divisions

Kalambo District is administratively divided into divisions.

Wards

Kalambo District is administratively divided into seventeen wards:[8]

  • 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). "State Gazettes New Regions, Districts". Daily News (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). Archived from the original on 2 August 2014.
  2. ↑ Briggs, Philip (2009). "Lake Tanganyika (Southern Shores)". Tanzania Travel News. Archived from the original on 2 August 2014.
  3. ↑ Staff (23 January 2014). "Collect levies, Chang’a tells Kalambo council officials". Daily News (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). Archived from the original on 2 August 2014.
  4. 1 2 3 Siyame, Peti (3 July 2012). "Truance Irks Kalambo DC". Daily News (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). Archived from the original on 2 August 2014.
  5. ↑ Bitekeye, Alex (23 April 2014). "Kikwete laments rising road accidents". The Citizen (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). Archived from the original on 2 August 2014.
  6. ↑ Staff (9 October 2013). "RUKWA region throws doors wide open for potential investors". Daily News (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania). Archived from the original on 2 August 2014.
  7. ↑ "Tanzania Parliament". African Development Information. Archived from the original on 19 April 2012.
  8. ↑ "Postcodes Rukwa Region 55000" (PDF). Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority (TCRA). 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 August 2012.
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