Mufumbwe

Mufumbwe, also Chizera, is a town with 6,155 inhabitants ( 2006 estimate ) in the North West Province of Zambia 850 km north-west of Lusaka and 225 kilometers west of Solwezi. It is located 1,069 meters above sea level and is the seat of the administrative district of the same name with 71 238 inhabitants ( 2000 census ). With Kabompo, Mpika, Chinsali and Sesheke district is one with fewer than four people per square kilometer of the most sparsely populated in Zambia.

History

Mufumbwe long belonged to the district from 37 km away Kasempa, which raised some issues after the separation. So here are missing a hospital, doctors and banks. There is a primary school but no secondary school. The entire district is dependent on Kasempa. In Mufumbwe there are landmines. They were from 1970 were buried on the grounds of " border protection " and can still explode.

Economy

Mufumbwe is a district, are in the holes, so the most basic form of the drinking water supply at the center. The supply of homes each family is the smallest of all of Zambia. Among the signs of prosperity here include the cattle herd and to a more limited extent, the size of the cultivated acre. This says nothing about the actual nutritional foundation, which consists mainly of deer, corn, cassava, honey and fish. Crop yields vary greatly, depending on the rainy season 2253-5140 tons for corn.

Infrastructure

The roads in the district are sandy slopes. The district has a lot of miombo.

Social

The dominant tribe are the Kaonde.

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