Mopeia (district)

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Mopeia district
Location of the Mopeia district in Mozambique
Location of the Mopeia district in Mozambique
Basic data
Country Mozambique
province Zambezia
surface 7671 km²
Residents 141,029 (2013)
density 18 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 MZ-Q

Coordinates: 17 ° 59 ′  S , 35 ° 43 ′  E

Mopeia is a district in the Mozambican province of Zambezia , its capital is Mopeia . The district is located in the southwest of the province, it borders in the north with the district Morrumbala , in the west with the provinces Sofala and Tete , in the south with the province Sofala and with the district Chinde and in the east with the districts Nicoadala and Inhassunge .

Flood on the Zambezi

geography

The district has an area of ​​7,671 square kilometers and 141,029 inhabitants (as of 2013). Mopeia is divided into two different regions: the highlands and the lowlands of the Zambezi with its tributaries. The highlands have a dry steppe climate with annual rainfall of 500 to 800 millimeters. The Zambezi forms the border in the southwest and threatens the surrounding landscape with flooding. There were particularly severe floods in 2000 and 2008.

population

The population density in the Mopeia district is low, at 18 people per square kilometer.

Mopeia, like many districts in Mozambique, has a young population. It is noticeable that there are more boys than girls under the age of 14, but more women than men between the ages of 15 and 40. It is particularly noticeable that there are more women between 25 and 29 years of age than between 20 and 24 years of age (as of 2013).

While over 60 percent profess Christianity in the province of Zambezia, it is just over 30 percent in Mopeia. But in Mopeia more than 50 percent are without religious beliefs (as of 2007).

Facilities and services

There are 178 primary schools ( Primárias) in the district , of which 141 are public schools and 37 are private schools. All of the eight secondary schools (Secundárias) are public (as of 2013). While the proportion of girls in primary schools is 42.5 percent, their proportion in secondary schools is only 32.3 percent. A total of 42.9 percent of the population aged 15 to 19 are illiterate. The proportion of male adolescents is 22.4 percent, well below the 60.7 percent of women.

Six health centers and three medical supply stations ensure the health of the population (as of 2012). The district's drinking water supply is very poor. Most of the springs are inland.

Administrative division

The district of Mopeia is divided into two administrative posts ( postos administrativos ):

  • Mopeia , the western part of the district,
  • Campo , the eastern part.

Economy and Infrastructure

In 2007, 1.8 percent of the population had access to electricity, and a tenth percent owned a car.

Asphalt road in Mozambique
Dirt road in Mozambique
Flooded country road in Mozambique

Agriculture

In 25,607 farms, staple foods are grown on a total area of ​​32,350 hectares. This corresponds to an average size of 1.26 hectares per farm (as of 2010). This also means that agriculture is mostly done on small family farms and manually. Most of the acreage is for cassava (8,000 hectares) and maize (6,000 hectares), and sweet potatoes and rice are also high yields (as of 2003).

Natural resources

There are no minable ores in the district.

traffic

The Mopeia district has mainly regional road connections, which can also be impassable when it rains:

section length Topping State of preservation
Mopeia Sede / Quelimane 200 km unpaved / asphalt appropriate / good
Mopeia Sede / Zero 45 km unpaved appropriate
Mopeia Sede / Lua-Lua 110 km unpaved / asphalt appropriate / good
Mopeia Sede / Chimuara 90 km unpaved / asphalt appropriate / good
Mopeia Sede / Posto Campo 91 km unpaved appropriate
Mopeia Sede / Luabo 80 km unpaved appropriate

There is no rail link in Mopeia

Mopeia virus

The Mopeia virus ( English Mopeia virus , MOPV) is an African species in the genus Mammarenavirus (arenaviruses of Mammalia ). These viruses are mainly transmitted to humans by rodents and can cause febrile illnesses that can sometimes be very severe or even fatal.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Instituto Nacional de Estatístic, Estatísticas do Distrito de Mopeia. (pdf) November 2013, accessed on 16 May 2019 (Portuguese).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Republic of Mozambique, Perfil do Distrito de Mopeia. (pdf) 2005, accessed on May 16, 2019 (Portuguese).
  3. ↑ International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Mozambique flood water officially worse than 2000. January 16, 2008, accessed May 20, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Research Gate, Presence of Mopeia virus to African arena virus. November 2011, accessed May 23, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Spektrum.de, arenaviruses. Retrieved May 23, 2019 .