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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