Mbarara District

Mbarara is a district (municipality) in western Uganda with 360.008 inhabitants. Like almost all 78 districts of Uganda, he is named after its main town - Mbarara - named. Mbarara is located in southwestern Uganda on the border with Tanzania.

Population

The inhabitants of Mbarara District belong to various Bantu peoples, including the Ankole. Along with the neighboring districts of Bushenyi and Mbarara Ntungamo part of the territory of the former Ankole Kingdom.

Climate

Mbarara belongs climatically to the dry tropics and made over the decades repeatedly extended periods of drought through. Summarizing the years 2003/2004 and 2005/2009 was found for the Decade 2000 - 2009 an average rainfall of only 335.25 mm annually. While that is almost twice as much as in the period 1993 - 1999 under of the years 1996/1997, but results over the period 1973 - 1978 a slight decrease of 11.13 millimeters.

As district of Mbarara Extreme knows the 100 % humidity without precipitation (measured on January 21, 2001) as well as the destructive force of a falling rain of 299.97 millimeters with only 55 % humidity (measured on July 4, 1977). Because of the many periods of drought can not unambiguously determine the rainy seasons in Mbarara. There is almost every month in a dry and a wet version, but February and June are almost always soaked rainless or weak.