Sankuru District

Sankuru is a district of the province of Kasai - Oriental Democratic Republic of Congo. Sankurus capital is the city Lodja, the population of the district was in the year 2006 1.374.239 inhabitants. A 2005 administrative reform adopted by the Sankuru the status of a province should have received, was not implemented and canceled by a constitutional amendment of President Joseph Kabila in January 2011.

History

By changing governments and country name the provinces were often restructured in the area of ​​present-day Democratic Republic of Congo. Here is an overview on the history Sankurus:

Period of time

Geography

Landscape

Sankuru is one of the districts in the country with the most areas of tropical rain forest. There are also bush and savannah areas. Regarding the fauna has Sankuru a very large biodiversity: There are lions, zebras, antelope, kudu, hippo and various tropical snake, crocodile and turtle species. In addition, numerous monkeys and chimpanzees forms living in the area.