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  Iringa Region - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iringa is one of Tanzania's 26 administrative regions.
Iringa Region is home to Ruaha National Park, Tanzania's second largest park, which has an abundance of wildlife and approximately 7,500 visitors per year.
The region is divided into seven districts: Iringa Rural and Iringa Urban, Kilolo Ludewa (8,397 square kilometers), Makete (4,128 square kilometers), Mufindi (7,123 square kilometers), and Njombe (10,242 square kilometers).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iringa_Region   (160 words)

  
 Iringa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Iringa is a town in Tanzania with a population of 112,900 (as of 2004).
Iringa was built during the 1890s by the German Army as a defensive base to be used against the Hehe uprising lead by Chief Mkwawa.
Iringa in the Tanzania 2002 Population and Housing Census
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Iringa   (362 words)

  
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Iringa is the capital and administrative centre of Iringa region in the Southern Highlands.
Iringa is the third largest town in Southern Tanzania, after Morogoro and Mbeya, with a population of about 113,000.
Iringa is an interesting, attractive town, with a colourful and lively market, where locally produced baskets and rugs can be purchased.
www.discovertanzania.org /iringa.asp   (480 words)

  
 Tanzania Tourist Board :: Places to Go :: Towns and Cities :: Iringa
Iringa overlooks the Little Ruaha River and is a popular stopping point for visitors to Ruaha National Park.
Historically, Iringa was a centre of colonial administration.
Iringa was also the site of several battles during the First and Second World Wars, and Commonwealth War Graves are located just outside of town.
tanzaniatouristboard.com /places_to_go/towns_and_cities/iringa   (174 words)

  
 Speigl Home Page
The Iringa market was started in the 1940's and is center of the shopping district in Iringa even today.
Iringa, has an elevation of over 5000 ft. and with ample seasonal rainfall, the area is an important farming and tobacco growing center.
Chief Mkwawa and the Hehe people used this immense fortress in nearby Kalenga in the late 1800's to hold off the German advances until he was finally captured in 1889.
hometown.aol.com /tanifunda/visit_to_iringa_mai_2002.html   (332 words)

  
 Iringa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iringa is a charming, if somewhat down-at-heel town which lies at the heart of Tanzania's tea industry.
For archaeology buffs, a trip to Isimilia, 15km west of Iringa, is mandatory.
Besides the astonishing free-standing natural rock pillars formed by millions of years of weathering, this is one of Africa's most important sites for exploring the relics of the Acheulean Age (about 60 000 years ago) and the site is littered with hand axes, hammers, cleavers and stone picks.
www.tanserve.com /towns/Iringa.html   (634 words)

  
 East Africa - Sept 29, 2005   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iringa is a pleasant, relaxed town at fairly high altitude, so it is relatively cool at this time of year.
The project in Iringa is an intensive ethnographic study of the students’ choosing.
Topics that the students came up with are very interesting and cover a wide range of subjects, including home-based care of AIDS patients, the treatment and education of the deaf, treatment and attitudes toward the mentally ill, pregnancy and childbirth, marriage, and doctors and medical education.
www.earlham.edu /~ipo/east_africa/2005/08nov.html   (620 words)

  
 Iringa Hostales | Iringa Hostales Baratos, Tanzania
Alojamiento Económico > Hostales > Africa > Tanzania > Iringa
Iringa Alojamiento Económico > [ Hostales ]
Baptist Conference Hotel is located approximately 1 kilometer from the town center of Iringa.
www.travellerspoint.com /hostels-es-ci-541.html   (40 words)

  
 New Catholic Dictionary: diocese of Iringa, Tanzania   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Established 3 March 1922 as Prefecture Apostolic of Iringa, Tanganykia by division from the Vicariate of Dar-es-Salaam.
Elevated to the Vicariate Apostolic of Iringa on 8 January 1948.
Elevated to the diocese of Iringa on 25 March 1953.
www.catholic-forum.com /saints/ncd04249.htm   (55 words)

  
 Iringa | THG Lexikon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iringa ist eine Stadt in der Mitte Tansanias in Ostafrika, etwas südlich der Hauptstadt Dodoma.
In Iringa gibt es eine sehr interessante alte deutsche Markthalle aus der Kolonialzeit; das Gericht ist ebenfalls ein altes deutsches Gebäude.
Die gesamte Region von Iringa hatte 2002 1.495.333 Einwohner, von denen nur 112.900 in der Stadt selbst wohnten.
www.tomshardware.de /lexikon/Iringa   (248 words)

  
 Inquiry Journal - Research Articles
I spent nine weeks in Tanzania on a grant to research the policies intended to combat child labor in the region of Iringa, in the country’s Southern Highlands.
IDYDC has branch offices in all the districts of the Iringa region, where local coordinators help find orphans, vulnerable kids, and disadvantaged youths and either bring them to Upendo Centre or support them in their villages.
For example, the labor officer for the Iringa region has not received any funding from the government for ten years, which means he can’t even afford a bus fare to go and do inspections.
www.unh.edu /inquiryjournal/06/articles/bertolotto.html   (2823 words)

  
 Iringa Town
Iringa is in the Southern Highlands region of Tanzania.
Iringa town runs along the bottom of a valley that is set up in some hills, if that makes any sense.
This area is Gangilonga and it's the main part of Iringa town.
www.angelfire.com /gundam/pdt1978/townlife.htm   (484 words)

  
 Technology Job in Iringa, Tanzania by Chris Abraham - Because the Medium is the Message
I'm looking for a successor for my position as the technology advisor for Tumaini University here in Iringa, Tanzania up in the southern highlands of the country (and if you are an academic or an administrator looking for an experience, I could probably help you find something here, too).
The city of Iringa where the university is located has 24-hour electricity, dependable running water, a solid telephone system, ubiquitous cell coverage (GSM), and city-wide 802.11g.
Iringa itself is in the southern highlands of Tanzania in the dramatic and beautiful mountains of this region.
www.chrisabraham.com /2005/03/technology_job.html   (1305 words)

  
 Jim & Judy Bangsund -- Archives 21
Both Makumira and Iringa are campuses of Tumaini University, the national university of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.
He is currently serving as the district musician for Iringa, and hopes to become a music teacher of the ELCT someday-- but first he needs to study for his BA in music.
Obeid Mella (Tumaini- Iringa) is missing from this picture, as is Rev.
www.elct.org /bangsund/news/jnjarc21.html   (357 words)

  
 Iringa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Iringa is the capital of the Iringa District.
This area has numerous koppies or boulder rockshelters, many of which were probably used in the stone age.
Magubike is a rockshelter between Iringa City and the Ruaha National Park.
www.arts.ualberta.ca /~pwilloug/iringa.htm   (265 words)

  
 St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Pastor Anta Muro is the primary pastor at Kihesa Lutheran Church in Iringa.
We were able to meet her the last day we were in Tanzania, when we were in Arusha on our way to the airport.
His wife Flora is from Iringa and was baptized at Kihesa Lutheran as a child.
www.stmarks-nsp.org /missions/Muro.html   (530 words)

  
 Welcome to Iringa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
St. Michael's and St. George's School, Iringa, Tanzania was founded in 1959 and lasted until 1967.
Of the Europeans students, possibly half were English, and the rest East African settlers, South Africans, Greeks, Italians and Australians.
This page was originally posted to the Web in late 1999 in the hope that any of the old boys and girls or their descendents using a search engine with the word "Iringa" would find it and get in contact.
eastafricans.org   (300 words)

  
 October 25, 2003 -- Earlham Tanzania Program 2003   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Our Iringa host, Geofrey Kombo, arranged a small party that began with the students seated together and the families each seated at their own small dining table.
After the requisite speeches by Geofrey, Allan and Sara, one Iringa father and one mother, the names of each student were called in turn and each student went over to the table where his or her family was seated.
It was a wonderful example of the respect that children in Tanzania should show their parents.
www.earlham.edu /~ipo/kenya/kenya2003/10-22-03.html   (857 words)

  
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In Iringa District, 4,440 ha of public-land forests have been earmarked for village controlled management whereby villagers will have full ownership and much of the management initiatives and efforts will come from themselves.
As the HIMA Programme shifts its emphasis towards supporting the agricultural sector, it is appropriate to recall that woody vegetation comprises a significant component of the agricultural landscape in Iringa Region and is actively managed as part of the farming systems of the region (Wardell, 1991; HIMA/MARTI-Uyole,1994;1995).
Historically, Iringa Region was among the 4 major maize producing regions of the country.
www.worldbank.org /afr/afr_for/fulltext/tnzna-1.doc   (2700 words)

  
 News
At one point the road goes through one of the National Parks and we were fortunate enough to see lots of elephants, zebra, antelope, buffalo, warthogs, a giraffe and a troop of baboons carrying their babies along the roadside, hoping for donations from passing tourists.
The language school is part of the Baptist Conference Centre in Iringa and is a very pleasant place to stay (although squeezing into one room for three and a half months may become a little claustrophobic!).
Whereas in the rural areas communities are close-knit and so there is very little crime, a town the size of Iringa affords a certain amount of anonymity to would-be thieves and so inevitably attracts a certain number of them.
homepage.mac.com /hywel/iringa/news/dec02.html   (1484 words)

  
 Faith Lutheran Church - Forest Lake, MN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The congregations of Faith Lutheran and Kidabaga are called by God, through the St Paul Area Synod and the Iringa Diocese to nurture each other in a relationship of prayer and compassionate works, empowered by the Holy Spirit.
Kidabaga is a small town located in the south central highlands of Tanzania, about 60 kilometers southeast of the town of Iringa.
However, not many Iringa area students are attending secondary schools because they (and their families) cannot afford the school fees.
www.faithfl.org /Kidabaga.asp   (1057 words)

  
 CIS Directory
The Iringa International School was started in 1993 by a group of expatriate and local parents in Iringa to provide a sound, internationally-acceptable education for their children in the Southern Highlands region of Tanzania.
.The Iringa International School started as a Primary School with 12 students and two full-time teachers, and has since added on a Kindergarten, Middle School, IGCSE (Key Stages 1-4) and boarding facilities.
The school is situated in a quiet, pleasantly shady suburb in Iringa town, within walking distance of the town centre.
www.cois.org /Directory/Directory_Page.asp?School_ID=IRINGA   (302 words)

  
 Ngorongoro Expedition and Tours Ltd
From Iringa town is 128Km (about 80 miles) west of Iringa.
Access: The Ruaha National Park lays 112Kms from Iringa, and is accessible by road, up to ten hours drive situated a long the road going westwards out of Iringa.
By Air access is to one of the airstrips close to the Park Headquarters at Msembe, Charter flights are from Dar-es-salaam, Mikumi, Iringa and Arusha.
www.ngorongoroexpedition.com /ruaha.html   (339 words)

  
 Western Zone   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The institute is located 17 km west of Tabora town along the main road to Urambo, adjacent (on the northern side) to the Central Railway Line.
The station at Iringa was originally a commercial tobacco and dairy farm called "Seatondale".
In 1971, the station took the name "Iringa Experimental Station" and came under the administration of ARTI Mbeya.
www.agricta.org /partners/drd/western.htm   (357 words)

  
 Iringa tobacco firms plant 600ha of trees
Tobacco companies in Iringa Region, in collaboration with Tanzania Tobacco Board have planted a total of 1,050,000 tree seedlings, an equivalent to 600 hectares of trees for the past eight seasons.
According to the statement of the Tanzania Tobacco Board (TTB) Chairman, southern zone, Ayub Kaniki that was presented to the Iringa Regional Commissioner, this season’s tree planting exercise was not successful due to climatic conditions caused by long periods of drought that affected many parts of of the country including Iringa region.
The occasion was officiated by the RC, Captain Jaka Mwambi who urged tobacco growers to conserve the environment while growing tobacco, according to the government directives on environmental destruction.
www.ippmedia.com /ipp/guardian/2006/05/16/66513.html   (488 words)

  
 Tanzania
In the area of Iringa there is a lack of secondary schools.
Christians are concerned that most of those who fail to secure admission to secondary education are normally Christians.
Iringa Bapt Academy would be located on 3 acres donated by the Iringa Baptist Conference Center.
www.bwanet.org /bwaid/TanzaniaProjects.htm   (359 words)

  
 Vetiver Grass -- TanzaniaConservation Trial
The trial site is located in Kilolo Division, Iringa District, Iringa Region on a 29% slope with a SSW aspect.
Located in the subhumid and cool tropical climate of the Iringa Highlands and developed on a mosaic of acidic pre-Cambrian metamorphic and plutonic rocks, most soils are deeply weathered and leached.
The red and yellow soils are dominated by kaolinitic clay minerals and aluminium - iron-oxyhydroxides.
www.vetiver.com /TAN_trial.htm   (1924 words)

  
 Community Based Natural Woodlands Management Project (NWMP)
During phase one, models for management of natural woodlands and local structures will be developed and strengthened for initially one village owned forest area and one national forest reserve.
The management plans will be developed and implemented jointly by the villagers, forestry staff at district level with support from Iringa District Council and technical assistance from Danida.
The Iringa District Council – through its Department of Natural Resources – will play a facilitating and monitoring role and will, in turn, have it's revenue base improved through increased district cess from forest related products in the two pilot areas.
www.easternarc.org /html/nwmp.html   (548 words)

  
 Safari | Iringa and Ruaha, Tanzania Travel Blog
7 hours in the car to Iringa, which was not so bad, since we were North American tyrants, and kicked the Finish people out of the jeep with decent seats.
SO in light of that, Iringa is surrounded by mountains, and that's what keeps it cooler.
I would have been happy staying in Iringa for the week, but Iringa was just a pit stop on our way to Ruaha.
www.travelpod.com /travel-blog-entries/jamieh/tanzania_2006/1161687720/tpod.html   (911 words)

  
 From Iringa to Gorna Banya - People news   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
DOMINIC Chesco was born in Iringa, in the southern highlands of Tanzania.
Eight years ago, funded by a grant from the Tanzanian government, he moved from Africa to Bulgaria to study Economics and Industrial management, at the Institute for the Study of National and World Economies in Sofia.
“In Iringa, it isn’t always so warm, because of the mountains, but it is always green, and there is always fresh fruit.
www.sofiaecho.com /article/from-iringa-to-gorna-banya/id_10717/catid_30   (942 words)

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