Kilombero
Kilombero is the amongst the six district of Tanzania’s Morogoro region, other districts are: Ulanga, Morogoro rural, Morogoro Urban, Kilosa and a new one, Mvomero (which was recently created located in rural Morogoro). T he headquarters of Kilombero district is Ifakara ”Wadamba” means people of the valley. Wnadamba is the most dominant tribe in this district. Though, due to different economic activities many tribes are intermarried in the Kilombero. The other tribes include: Masai, Wasukuma, Wabena, and Wambunga. The Kilombero Kalley has 400,000 hectares of the land which are suitable for agricultural activities such as farming and animal husbandry. The valley has a population of around 174,920 people, with birth rate of 3% per year.
The district extends from the middle of south-west of Morogoro, to the east borders with Morogoro rural and Kilosa in north east. The north west borders Mufindi and Njombe of Iringa region, while at its south and south-east extremes it shares borders with Songea rural (Ruvuma region) and Ulanga district respectively. Most of the district lies along Kilombero valley and forms a vital part of the Rufiji basin. This extends below Udzungwa Mountain from its east toward the south west.
The greatest part of Kilombero Valley consists of Alluvial floodplains situated at an elevation of sightly less than 300m above sea level. The valley may further be divided into the alluvial lowlands ,which are mostly swampy and subjected to flooding and alluvial uplands which form a strip of 6km wide ons follows; Hot wet seasons which occurs from December to March, Cool wet seasons from April to June, Cool either side of alluvial lowlands. Part of these area are corresponding to the cultivated areas of the farming areas. The higher of the elevation of the hill sides between 700 and 1700m pianotiles2hackcheats.com/pianotiles2hack/ extending in an east -west direction.
The climate of Kilombero can be described as the tropical to sub-humid which are more favourable for living. Its climate can be divided in the following; dry seasons from July to August and hot dry seasons from September to November. The temperature is not constant, there is large fluctuation of the temperature between the day and the night, the high temperature are in November and December, the low temperature are observed to during then cool dry seasons normally at June when temperature fall up to 12 Celsius, on the other hand 38 Celsius can be http://www.thesimsfreeplayhackcheats.com/ reached in November. The relative humidity is normally constant during the wet seasons, when is between 70% and 90%, but during the hot seasons it dropped up to 25%. The areas of Kilombero a rainfall of 1200mm to 1400mm annually .Kilombero is not the windy area, the wind is generally steady, but there is only the strong wind during October and November with little risks.
Majority of the villagers are subsistence farmers of maize and rise, however there are large wood plantations in Kilombero and neighbouring Ulanga district . Also in other part of Kilombero district there large plantation of the sugar cane example in the north -west of the district there is Ulovo sugar plantation.
The major features found in the Kilombero district are Kilombero river and Udzungwa mountain. The river connects Kilombero district and Ulanga district, this river located 5km from the headquarters of the district (Ifakara) and it filled by 10 tribute and flow in Rufiji river. The Udzungwa mountain which is very much attraction for tourist in Kilombero district, this mountain is located at north west of the district.
There are 110km from Mikumi to Ifakara, the road to Ifakara is not bad though there are some strip from Kidatu which are not good in deed, especially during the rain seasons. There are also railway line in Kilombero, this rail pass to Zambia with rail station along Mang’ula, Kiberege, Ifakara, etc. In kilombero there are good availability of communication network different telephone company tower exist in Ifakara, though email service are seldom.
There exist 33kv a transmission line from Kidatu, where it is produced, to Ifakara town. The electricity at Ifakara is confined largely to domestic use small scale enterprises and pumping station. The electricity is reasonably reliable with very few surges, however due to storm visit our website in the region electricity failures are common.
Kilombero valley is a unique and complex area, the site is amongst the largest seasonal wetland in East Africa , this wetland is an important source of nutrients and sediment for the downstream area. The site is the is the key feature in the Selous to Kilombero wildlife Migration, the population of crocodile in Kilombero links with that of Selous .It observed that Kilombero valley has one endemic species of Crocodile called Crocodylus niloticus and endemic population of Colobus Monkey. Also Kilombero valley contain a property population of Puku antelope which are only found in 18 location in Africa and 3 endemic bird species (weaverbird and 2 Cisticolla species). During the the wet seasons, it is an important spawning area for many kinds of fish in Rufiji river. In Kilombero valley in short study it observed that there are 23 types of fish, but in the other study it identified click our website that there is 27 species which based on consumption catch studies, although more study is needed to confirmed the observation.
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