Mawa Gare

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
Village
Mawa Gare is located in Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mawa Gare
Mawa Gare
Coordinates: 2.73813°N 26.69304°E / 2.73813; 26.69304
CountryDemocratic Republic of the Congo
ProvinceBas-Uélé
TerritoryPoko Territory
Elevation
609 m (1,998 ft)

Location

Mawa 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

The 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
    1. Way: Mawa (362161731).
    2. Mawa ... Geonames.
    3. Omasombo Tshonda 2014, p. 275.
    4. Omasombo Tshonda 2014, p. 242.
    5. Omasombo Tshonda 2014, p. 449.

    Sources
    • "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
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