Tororo

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Tororo

Storm in Tororo
Tororo

Location in Uganda

Coordinates: 00°41′34″N 34°10′54″E / 0.69278°N 34.18167°E / 0.69278; 34.18167
Country Uganda
Region Eastern Region of Uganda
District Tororo District
Elevation 3,888 ft (1,185 m)
Population (2014 Census)
 • Total 41,906[1]
Tororo rock

Tororo is a town in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Tororo District.

Location

The town is approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) west of the town of Malaba at the border between Uganda and Kenya. This is approximately 230 kilometres (140 mi), by road, east of Kampala, Uganda's capital and largest city.[2] The coordinates of the town are 0°41'34.0"N, 34°10'54.0"E (Latitude:0.692780; Longitude:34.181655).[3]

Population

In 2002, the national census put the population of the town of Tororo at about 34,800. In 2010, the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) estimated the population at 42,500. In 2011, UBOS estimated the mid-year population at 43,700.[4] The 2014 national population census put the population at 41,906.[1]

Industry

Tororo has a major cement works, Tororo Cement Limited, that in 2007, because of power shortages, could produce only 19,000 metric tonnes of cement daily against an installed capacity of 35,000 metric tonnes.[5]

It is also home to SEBA Foods, a food factory that was officially opened by the president of Uganda on 25 June 2010.[6]

Electromaxx Limited constructed a 20 megawatt thermal plant, Tororo Power Station, that was commissioned in June 2010.

Tororo is also the location of Nilefos Minerals Limited, a subsidiary of the Madhvani Group of companies. Nilefos mines and processes phosphates for use in fertilizer and related industries.[7]

Rail transport

Tororo railway station on the Uganda Railway.

Tororo marks the junction of railway lines to Pakwach, via Soroti, and to Kasese, via Kampala. Since 1993, the metre gauge line from Tororo Junction to Gulu and Pakwach has been out of use.

Rift Valley Railways funded the clearing of the line east to Gulu of vegetation and repairing track and bridges, thus allowing the first commercial train for 20 years to run through on the metre gauge track from the Kenyan port of Mombasa through Nairobi and Eldoret to the Kenyan frontier in Tororo and onwards to Gulu on the line to Pakwach on 14 September 2013.[8]

Climate and weather

Tororo has a tropical monsoon climate with a short dry season[9] The average annual temperature is 22.4 °C (72.3 °F) (average high 28.7 °C (83.7 °F) and average low 16.2 °C (61.2 °F)). Average annual precipitation is 1,494 millimetres (58.8 in).[10] Tororo has many thunderstorms and may be the place where thunder occurs on more days than any other place on Earth.[11]

Points of interest

The following additional points of interest lie within the town limits or near its edges:

Photos

See also

References

  1. 1 2 UBOS (27 August 2014). "The Population of The Regions of the Republic of Uganda And All Cities And Towns of More Than 15,000 Inhabitants". Citypopulation.de Quoting Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). Retrieved 26 February 2015.
  2. ↑ "Road Distance Between Kampala And Tororo With Map". Globefeed.com. Retrieved 10 May 2014.
  3. ↑ Google (19 July 2015). "Location of Tororo At Google Maps" (Map). Google Maps. Google. Retrieved 19 July 2015.
  4. ↑ UBOS. "Estimated Population of Tororo In 2002, 2010 & 2011" (PDF). Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). Retrieved 11 May 2014.
  5. ↑ Kaujju, Peter (11 July 2007). "Cement shortage pushes retail price to sh25,000". New Vision. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  6. ↑ Ibrahim Kasita, Henry Mukasa and Moses Nampala (24 June 2010). "Power cuts to go - Museveni". New Vision. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  7. ↑ Ssonko, Kiganda (12 May 2008). "Madhvani to invest $535m in Tororo phosphates mining". New Vision. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Staff, Writers (9 October 2013). "Uganda's Northern Line revived". Railway Gazette International. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
  9. ↑ Historical Weather For 2013 in Tororo, Uganda, WeatherSpark, accessed 23 November 2016
  10. ↑ Climate Tororo - Uganda, climatedata.eu, accessed 23 November 2016
  11. ↑ "Top 10 facts about thunder", Daily Express, 6 June 2014, accessed 23 November 2016
  12. ↑ Sekanjako, Henry (25 July 2012). "Delayed Tororo-Mbale-Soroti road to cost more money". New Vision. Kampala. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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Coordinates: 00°41′34″N 34°10′52″E / 0.69278°N 34.18111°E / 0.69278; 34.18111

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