Katakwi District

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Location of Katakwi
Basic data
Capital	Katakwi
Geographical center	1 ° 56 '  N , 34 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 1 ° 56 '  N , 34 ° 2'  E
North South expansion	80 km
East-west expansion	95 km
surface	5,114 km²
population	307.032 (as of 2002)
Population density	60 inhabitants / km²
Deepest point	1036 m
The highest point	1177 m
Time zone	UTC +3
ISO 3166-2	UG-207

Katakwi is a district in the east of Uganda with 307,032 inhabitants. The capital is the eponymous Katakwi . In the south, Katakwi has a share of the Bisina and Opeta lakes .

The district was spun off from Soroti in 1997 after it had existed as the North Teso District for some time in the 1970s and 1980s . It is divided into the three counties Kapelebyong, Amuria and Usuk, which in turn are divided into 14 subdistricts and one municipality. These are divided into 80 communities.

The main agricultural products are peanuts , sorghum and cassava . Katakwi was hit by a large-scale flash flood in September 2007, which particularly affected the regions around the cities of Amuria and Katakwi. In the media, it turned into a catastrophe that affected all of northern Uganda. Katakwi was annexed to the Sahel zone, although it is actually in eastern central Uganda. The rain measurements of the weather stations of other districts show since 1973 that a pour of 200 mm and more must be expected at least once per decade, which should actually represent a bit of normality for a tropical country like Uganda.

traffic

Katakwi has 581 km of paved roads and 20 km of rails on the northern line of the Uganda Railway .

Web links

• District Information Portal (English)