Lunsar

Lunsar
Lunsar
Coordinates	8 ° 41 ′  N , 12 ° 32 ′  W Coordinates: 8 ° 41 ′  N , 12 ° 32 ′  W
Basic data
Country	Sierra Leone
province	North West Province
District	Port Loko
Chiefdom	Marampa
Residents	16,567 (2004)

Lunsar is a city in Sierra Leone . It is located in the Chiefdom Marampa in the Port Loko district in the North West Province .

The city is mostly inhabited by Temne . Because of its importance, however, numerous members of other ethnic groups have also immigrated. The population grew from 12,132 in 1963 to 16,723 in 1974. The closure of the mines then led to stagnation. In 1985 16,073 people were counted, in 2004 16,567 inhabitants.

Lunsar is on the road from the state capital Freetown to Makeni . Iron ore mining in Marampa, six kilometers to the east, used to be economically important .

Today the place is a market and transshipment point for rice, palm oil and palm kernels.

There is a privately run (Roman Catholic) hospital in the city.

City name

The name of the city goes back to the discovery of ore . At first the Temne called the place Ro-Sar (in Temne ), which means something like "the place where stones are found". The current name of the city later developed from this.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FINAL RESULTS 2004 POPULATION AND HOUSING CENSUS. Statistics Sierra Leone, February 23, 2006, p. 4 ( Memento of the original of July 30, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on March 4, 2014 
2. ^ Village Names. The Sierra Leone Web, date unknown accessed July 11, 2014