Butha-Buthe District

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Location of the Butha-Buthe district in Lesotho

Basic data
Administrative city Butha-buthe
surface 1767 km²
population 118,242 (as of 2016)
Population density 67 inhabitants / km²
ISO 3166-2 LS-B
Telephone code +266

The district Butha-Buthe , also Botha-Bothe , is one of the ten districts (districts) of the Kingdom of Lesotho in southern Africa .

geography

The district of Butha-Buthe is the northernmost and with 1767 km² the smallest of the ten districts of Lesotho. In 2016 it had 118,242 inhabitants. It stretches from the main town of the same name, Butha-Buthe, in the west, to the 3240-meter-high Khaleng-la-Lithunya (German: "Pass of the Guns") in the east. In the south, the district extends in the valley of the Malibamatšo to close to the Katse reservoir , and in the north to the 2028 meter high Mafika Lisiu pass, the border crossing to the former South African homeland QwaQwa . This means that the district is partly in the densely populated Lowlands , partly in the Maloti Mountains .

The most important pass is the Moteng Pass, which has to be crossed on the way from Butha-Buthe east to the Maloti Mountains.

Adjacent districts are Leribe in the south and west and Mokhotlong in the east and the South African province of Free State in the north.

Localities

  • Butha-buthe
  • Khukhune
  • Qalo
  • Muela, with power station and catch basin
  • Ha Seboche, located in the Maloti Mountains, with a hospital
  • Oxbow with Afri-Ski , the only ski area in southern Africa

Community Councils

The community councils are Kao, Likila, Linakeng, Lipelaneng, Liqhobong, Makhunoane, 'Moteng, Ntelle, Sekhobe and Tša-Le-Moleka.

Web links

Commons : Butha-Buthe District  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 2016 Summary Key Findings. Bureau of Statistics (PDF), accessed March 17, 2018
  2. ↑ Statistics at statoids.com (English), accessed on December 28, 2012

Coordinates: 28 ° 50 ′  S , 28 ° 30 ′  E