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Mahenge

location_on Morogoro Region, Tanzania
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About Mahenge

Mahenge is a limestone plateau place in the Ulanga District, Morogoro Region, Tanzania, and Africa. There is a metropolis there of the equal call. It is set south east of Singida, within the miombo woodland bio-area. There is a woodland reserve that begins 8 km from Mahenge metropolis, known as the Mahenge Scarp Catchment Forest Reserve, installed in 1954. This forest has been heavily encroached upon for illegal logging and a planned graphite factory. There is also some mining of ruby gem stones. There is a hospital, a market, and primary schools. A Catholic Capuchin project turned into set up round 1897, and there may be now a St. Francis Kasita Seminary at Mahenge. The Diocese of Mahenge was set up in 1964. About 60 percentage of the populace is Catholic Christians.

The dry season is June to October. Water is generally scarce because of the limestone plateau, however notwithstanding this the vicinity gives its call to the Mahenge Toad Mertensophryne loveridgei. The rare tree Dombeya amaniensis is also discovered on this region. It is a place very wealthy in ancient kimberlite crater lakes which yield many Paleogene fossils. Many new discoveries were made there. In slaving times, the Mahenge area become notorious as the house of slave hunters.

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