Muleba (District)

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Muleba District

Location of Muleba District in Tanzania
basic data
Country Tanzania
region Kagera
surface 3444 km²
resident 639,902 (2019)
density 186 inhabitants per km²
ISO 3166-2 TZ-05
Coordinates: 1° 51′  S , 31° 39′  E

Muleba is a district in the Kagera region of Tanzania with the capital Muleba . It is bordered by Bukoba District to the north, Lake Victoria to the east, Biharamulo District to the south and Karagwe District to the west .

Wooded shore on Lake Victoria

geography

Muleba has a size of 3444 square kilometers and around 640,000 inhabitants (as of 2019). The district is located in northwestern Tanzania, on the western shore of Lake Victoria. From there the land rises steeply to a high plateau between 1100 and 1300 meters above sea level. In the southwest it is bordered by Lake Burigi . The district also includes 38 islands in Lake Victoria, the largest being the islands of Ikuzi, Nazinga, Iroba and Bumbire. The climate is tropical, Aw according to the effective climate classification . It rains mainly in summer, the total rainfall in the capital is 1400 millimeters a year, the average temperature is 21 degrees Celsius.

story

Muleba is located in the former settlement area of ​​the Buhaya , who farmed the land as early as the 13th century. They were also chiefs during the colonial period, but only as executives of the colonial masters. Typical of the landscape was a banana-based home garden and open grass and scrubland.

Location of Muleba district in Kagera region

administrative division

The district is divided into 43 parishes (wards):

  • muhutwe
  • Mayondwe
  • Goziba
  • notch
  • bumbire
  • Ikuza
  • izigo
  • catoke
  • Kagoma
  • kikuku
  • Bureza
  • Muleba
  • icono
  • Buhangaza
  • Mazinga Kisiwa
  • Magata Karutanga
  • Gwanseli
  • kibanga
  • Kasharunga
  • Rulanda
  • Kimwani
  • Nyakabango
  • Kyebitembe
  • Karambi
  • mubunda
  • Bisheke
  • Burungura
  • Biirabo
  • Mushabago
  • Nyakatanga
  • quantity
  • Rutoro
  • Kabirizi
  • Nshamba
  • Kashasha
  • Ijumbi
  • Kishanda
  • buganguzi
  • Ibuga
  • Bulyakashaju
  • Kamachumu
  • Ruhanga
  • mafumbo

population

The number of residents increased from 273,329 in 1988 to 385,184 in 2002, to 540,310 by 2012 and finally to 639,302 in 2019. In 2002, 68 percent of those over the age of 15 were literate, rising to 78 percent in 2012. That year, 62 percent of those over the age of five were literate in Swahili, and nine percent in both Swahili and English.

facilities and services
  • Education: In 2019, there were 220 preschools and 232 elementary schools in the district, ten of which were privately run. 15,811 students were taught in 38 state secondary schools, plus 2,848 students in eleven private schools. Teacher training took place in two training centers, one of which was public and one private.
  • Health: There is one hospital each in Rubya, Ndolage and Kagondo and five health centers are spread across the district. Of the 38 pharmacies, 26 are state-run and 12 are private (as of 2019).
  • Water: The population gets its water from a wide variety of sources, 59 percent received clean and safe water (as of 2019).

Economy and Infrastructure

Muleba is one of the least developed districts of Tanzania. The reason for this is that the harvests of traditional agriculture are low and the prices for the crops are falling.

  • Agriculture: Around eighty percent of the population live from agriculture, which is mainly operated by small farmers. The most important crops are bananas, coffee, beans and cassava. Of the 113,000 households, 49,000 kept livestock, and in rural areas over 98 percent had livestock. Mainly chickens and goats were kept (as of 2012).
  • Fishing: Fishing in Muleba faces the same problems as in all countries around Lake Victoria. Originally, Haplochromis species were fished, which supported the livelihood of the local communities. In the 1960s, Nile perch was introduced and catches soared, increasing thirty-fold by 2006 to a 90 percent Nile perch share. Then the yields fell. On the one hand, the predatory Nile perch had wiped out at least 200 species of Haplochromis, on the other hand, overfishing of the Nile perch itself caught many before they were mature. Global warming may also have contributed to the decline.
  • Roads: The main transport link is the T4 national road, which circles around Lake Victoria and crosses the district from south to north.

nature reserves, sights

  • Lake Victoria: To the east, the district has 100 kilometers of coastline on Africa's largest lake.
  • Biharamulo Game Reserve: To the south of Muleba is part of the 1300 square kilometer Biharamulo Game Reserve. Elephants, zebras, antelopes and monkeys live in the Miombo forests, but especially birds such as eagles, ibises and storks.
Anna Tibaijuka

Others

web links

itemizations

  1. ↑ a b Statistics | Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Muleba. Retrieved 24 January 2020 (Swahili).
  2. ^ a b c Google Maps. Retrieved January 24, 2020 (de-US).
  3. ^ a b Lake Victoria | Size, Map, Countries, & Facts. Encyclopaedia Britannica, accessed 25 January 2020 (English).
  4. ↑ Muleba climate: Average Temperature, weather by month, Muleba weather averages - Climate-Data.org. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Satoshi Maruo: Differentiation of Subsistence Farming Patterns among the Haya Banana Growers in Northwestern Tanzania. Kyoto University, December 2002, pp. 150–151 , accessed 25 January 2020 .
  6. ↑ 2012 Population and Housing Census. (pdf) National Bureau of Statistics and Ministry of Finance, March 2013, p. 166 , accessed 11 December 2019 .
  7. ↑ 18. Kagera Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, March 2016, p. 16 , accessed 24 January 2020 .
  8. ↑ 18. Kagera Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, March 2016, pp. 69, 73 , accessed 24 January 2020 .
  9. ↑ Elimu (Education) | Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Muleba. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Afya (Health) | Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Muleba. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Maji (Water) | Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Muleba. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Historia ya Muleba | Halmashauri ya Wilaya ya Muleba. Retrieved January 24, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Executive Summary Budget 2016/2017. District Council, accessed 24 January 2020 .
  14. ↑ 18. Kagera Regional Profiles. (PDF) The United Republic of Tanzania, March 2016, pp. 132, 134 , accessed 24 January 2020 .
  15. ↑ James Njiru, Martin Van der Knaap, Rodrick Kundu, Chrisphine Nyamweya: Lake Victoria fisheries: Outlook and management . In: Lakes & Reservoirs: Research & Management . tape 23 , June 1, 2018, p. 152–162 , doi : 10.1111/lre.12220 ( researchgate.net [accessed 25 January 2020]).
  16. ↑ Tanzania Trunk Road Network. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Biharamulo game reserve. In: Tanzania Zalendo. Retrieved January 25, 2020 (American English).
  18. ↑ Prof Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka. In: Prof. Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka. Retrieved January 25, 2020 (American English).
  19. ↑ WHO | Anna Tibaijuka. Retrieved January 25, 2020 .