Uvira (Congo)
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| Coordinates | 3 ° 26 ′ S , 29 ° 8 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Democratic Republic of Congo | ||
| Sud-Kivu | |||
| ISO 3166-2 | CD-SK | ||
| Residents | 170,422 (January 1, 2005) | ||
 Uvira on the shores of Lake Tanganyika
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Uvira is a city on the north bank of Lake Tanganyika in the district of the same name in the Sud-Kivu Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo . In 2005 Uvira had 170,422 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2005), compared to 74,432 in 1984 according to the census. The city is on the road to Bukavu and Bujumbura . There used to be a sugar factory in Uvira, but it has been bankrupt for several years.
The nearby port of Kalundu ( French Port de Kalundu ) is operated by the Société Nationale des Chemins de fer du Congo and has 2 quays. Each quay is equipped with a derrick crane. There is free and covered storage space in the port. The silting up of the harbor entrance is a permanent problem. The port area ( 3 ° 26 ′ 3.6 ″ S , 29 ° 7 ′ 52.4 ″ E ) is both a border crossing and a customs clearance point .
Uvira is the seat of a diocese of the Roman Catholic Church ( Diocese of Uvira ) and is located in the Archdiocese of Bukavu .
The soccer player Assani Lukimya comes from Uvira .
During floods after rain in April 2020, 3,500 houses were destroyed in the city of Uvira and 24 people, mostly children, were killed in the province of Sud-Kivu.
Uvira district
Uvira is one of the eight districts in Sud-Kivu Province. It borders in the north on the Sud-Kivu district of Walungu, in the east on Burundi and Lake Tanganyika , in the south on the Sud-Kivu district Fizi and in the west on the Sud-Kivu district Mwenga.
Web links
- Map of Sud-Kivu
- Map of Sud-Kivu of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs ( OCHA )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jessica Cochran, Lucy Styles: Logistics Capacity Assessment: 2.1.5 Democratic Republic of Congo Port of Kalundu . at www.dlca.logcluster.org (English)
- ↑ Floods in the Democratic Republic of the Congo orf.at, April 18, 2020, accessed April 18, 2020.