Tororo
Location of Tororo Uganda within
Tororo is a town in southeastern Uganda near the border with Kenya, with 47 729 inhabitants. It is the capital of the eponymous district Tororo.
Facilities
Tororo is the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Tororo. In 1984, the Missionary Benedictines of St. Ottilia in the place a monastery named Christ the King's Priory. The Convention included 2008 19 Monks, 2010 25 monks. The monastery maintains facilities such as vocational schools and training centers in the fields of metalworking, carpentry and building trade.
Attached to the convent of the Missionary Benedictines there is an eye clinic ( Benedictine Eye Hospital ), which is sometimes served by the Lions Fund.
Climate
Despite the exposed position near the Mount Elgon has occurred in Tororo since weather records began in January 1957 again droughts. In the period 1973 to July 1974 were, for example, only 61.99 inches of rain during a two-month measurement in the statewide drought of 1999 resulted in only 0 mm. The years 2000 - 2009 rendered under of the years 2003 and 2004, and excluding 2001, an annual average rainfall of 488.39 mm. In the same period 1973 - 1978, however, fell only 213,15 mm of rain. The destructive force of the flash flood of 18 June 1997 with 320.04 mm has not been achieved to some extent again. The peak value of 14 February 2008 yielded only a quantum of 114.05 mm of rainfall, but this is an extraordinary event for a day in the Ugandan February.
Infrastructure
Tororo is located just 10 kilometers from the border town of Malaba Kenyan removed. The town has an airstrip. In addition, there is a node of the Uganda Railway with railway lines of Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Kampala and north towards Mbale and Pakwach. The place has highway connections via the A 104 after Webuye in Kenya as well as in the direction of Iganga and Mbale.