Mawa Gare (Mawa Station) is a village in the Bas-Uélé province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was a station on the defunct Vicicongo line, a railway.
Mawa Gare | |
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Village | |
  Mawa Gare | |
| Coordinates: 2°44′17″N 26°41′35″E / 2.73813°N 26.69304°E | |
| Country | Democratic Republic of the Congo |
| Province | Bas-Uélé |
| Territory | Poko Territory |
| Elevation | 609 m (1,998 ft) |
Location
editMawa Gare is in the Bas-Uélé province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1] It is at an elevation of about 703 metres (2,306 ft) above sea level.[2] The former Komba-Mungbere railway runs through the village from west to east. The RS414 road runs from Niapu to the southwest through Mawa to Poko to the north.[1]
Mawa-Gare is an administrative post in the Poko Territory.[3] It is in the Viadana health zone, and has a health station.[4]
Colonial period
editThe main axis of the Vicicongo line built by the Société des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux du Congo ran east from Zobia through Mawa to Isiro.[5] This section was opened on 31 December 1934.[5]
Notes
edit- ^ a b Way: Mawa (362161731).
- ^ Mawa ... Geonames.
- ^ Omasombo Tshonda 2014, p. 275.
- ^ Omasombo Tshonda 2014, p. 242.
- ^ a b Omasombo Tshonda 2014, p. 449.
Sources
edit- "Mawa", Geonames, retrieved 2021-03-29
- Omasombo Tshonda, Jean (2014), Bas-Uele Pouvoirs locaux et économie agricole : héritages d’un passé brouillé (PDF) (in French), Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, ISBN 978-9-4916-1586-3, retrieved 2020-08-30
- "Way: Mawa (362161731)", OpenStreetMap, retrieved 2021-03-29