Entebbe

Location of Entebbe within Uganda

Entebbe is the former capital of Uganda. The city has 62 971 inhabitants and is located about 35 km from the present capital Kampala located on a peninsula in Lake Victoria. The peninsula is only connected to a few hundred meters wide strip of land with the District Wakiso.

Entebbe, whose name means seat in Luganda, was formerly the place where a Baganda leaders decided litigation.

1893 moved the British colonial officials Sir Gerald Portal 's administrative headquarters to Entebbe. 1894 to 1962 the city was the administrative center of Uganda. Even today, here are some ministries - for example, for health, for Immigration and Employment.

Entebbe is home to the Entebbe International Airport, the Uganda International Airport. The Israeli army carried out here in 1976 by ​​Operation Entebbe, when kidnappers with the help of the Government of Uganda Idi Amin an aircraft of Air France held her captive in order to force the freedom of several imprisoned PLO members.

Entebbe still has a dock on Lake Victoria with a fishing harbor under construction. Since then, Port Bell is used as a port of Kampala, but no more ships dock here. The city has a botanical garden and a zoo. In the botanical garden of the city exterior shots of the Tarzan movies with Johnny Weissmuller were filmed in the 1930s.

Demographics

Climate

Entebbe is by far the wettest place in Uganda, which is due to thunderstorm clusters, which have developed over Lake Victoria, Lake Victoria and rain down again and move only relatively rarely more about the country. Rain is virtually always accompanied by thunderstorms in Entebbe. So it took the April 2001 of the rainiest with 1615.95 mm year of the decade to 25 days with thunder and lightning, which was a huge burden on the situated near the airport. In the middle of the decade the rainfall subsided greatly. The measurement of 2 x 6 months current year 2003/ 2004 has only 464.57 mm to book. In 2005, the figure was only slightly higher with only 471.17 mm. The average of the decade 2000-2009 was thus annually at 1037.07 mm. The most violent downpour fell on 9 March 2001 with 124.95 liters per square meter and thus beat the peak values ​​of 22 March 1995 with 382.02 mm and 2 September 1995 202.95 mm clear. 1995 was 1915.20 mm with the wettest year since the beginning of the rainy measurements. Nevertheless, the nation-wide drought of 1999 expressed the average of the measurement period 1993-1999 to 845.04 mm annually. The maximum humidity of 100 % was achieved several times in Entebbe since the 1990s.

Since the seventies, we have observed a continuous increase in rainfall. The drought of 1973 pushed the annual average of the measurement period 1973-1978 to only 709.91 mm. Extreme temperatures such as 36 ° C from September 10, 1974 or 7 ° C on August 28, 1973 have not been re-measured.