Kipushi
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| Coordinates | 11 ° 46 ′ S , 27 ° 15 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Democratic Republic of Congo | ||
| Skin katanga | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-HK | ||
| height | 1329 m | ||
| Residents | 174,429 | ||
Kipushi is a city in the province of Haut-Katanga in the southeast of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is an archaeological site.
The city at an altitude of 1329 meters today has 174,429 inhabitants (2003) and is 28 kilometers southwest of Lubumbashi on the border with Zambia . It follows a clear urban plan. It was formed in 1920 around an open pit mine (Mine de l'Étoile de la Kalukuluku), which has been producing since 1909. The new economic basis is to be a mine with 26 million tons of ore, which has 2.18 percent copper and 19 percent zinc. Kipushi has a hospital, primary and secondary schools, a post office, and a downtown area with shopping centers. It is connected to the railway network of the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo . The language is Kiswahili , although the area is inhabited by the Lunda tribe.
Archeology has found some artifacts in Kipushi. The pieces are ceramics that are assigned to the Iron Age from 800 ( C-14 dated 1440). They are combined with the finds in Kansanshi , Kapwirimbwe , Chondwe , Roan Antelope, Luano Cave and Kangonga in Zambia.
Personalities
- Muteba Kidiaba (* 1976), former national soccer player
literature
- Michael S. Bisson, Copper Currency in Central Africa: The Archaeological Evidence , World Archeology, Vol. 6, No. 3, Currency (Feb. 1975), pp. 276-292
- Tim Maggs, Some Recent Radiocarbon Dates from Eastern and Southern Africa , The Journal of African History, Vol. 18, No. 2 (1977), pp. 161-191