Chemba (district)

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Chemba district
Location of the Chemba district in Mozambique
Location of the Chemba district in Mozambique
Basic data
Country Mozambique
province Sofala
surface 3978 km²
Residents 73,390 (2013)
density 18 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 MZ-S

Coordinates: 17 ° 10 ′  S , 34 ° 53 ′  E

Chemba is a district of the Sofala province in Mozambique with the administrative seat in the city of Chemba . Its territory is bordered to the east and north by the Mutarara district in the Tete province , to the west by the Tambara district and to the south by the Maringué and Caia districts .

geography

Chemba District is located on the right bank of the Zambezi River. The climate in the whole district is tropical, semi-arid on the Zambezi, dry inland.

Doll of the Nsenga ethnic group in Chemba province

population

The Chemba district is 3,978 square kilometers and in 2013 had a population of 73,390 people. This corresponds to a population density of 18 people per square kilometer. The population is extremely young, over 52 percent are under 15 years old. Over 80 percent of the population are illiterate, with older people and women making up a particularly high proportion.

Facilities and services

There are (as of 2013) 86 elementary schools ( Primárias) and five secondary schools (Secundárias) in the district. Of the primary schools, 66 are public and 20 are private schools, and of the secondary schools, four are private schools.

There are seven health centers and one ambulance in Chemba.

Administrative division

The Chemba district is divided into three administrative posts ( postos administrativos ):

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2007 only 0.3 percent of the population of Chemba had access to electrical energy (12 percent in Sofala province), over 80 percent heated with wood (26 percent in Sofala province). Only two in every thousand people owned a car (20 in 1,000 in Sofala Province).

Agriculture

In 2005, 96 percent of the population in Chemba District lived from agriculture. In 2010 there were 8,880 farms with an average of 2.2 hectares of land. The main crops were maize (around a third of the area under cultivation), cassava, beans, peanuts, millet and sweet potatoes.

traffic

The road network in the district covers 324 kilometers (as of 2005):

  • EN 213: from Sena to Chemba, 39 kilometers
  • EN 215: from Chemba to Nfumbe: 65 kilometers
  • EN 445: from Chemba to Chiramba: 75 kilometers
  • EN 446: from Chemba to Catulene: 120 kilometers
  • EN 447: from Catulene to Nhabatia: 25 kilometers

There is semi-public passenger transport between Chemba and Beira.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Republica de Mozambique, Perfil do Distrito do Chemba. (pdf) 2005, accessed May 4, 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b c d Instituto Nacional de Estatístic, Estatísticas do Distrito de Chemba. (pdf) November 2013, accessed May 4, 2019 (Portuguese).