Cahora-Bassa District is a district

District

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 of Tete Province

Tete Province

Tete is a province of Mozambique. It has an area of 100,724 km² and a population of approximately 1.551.949 .Tete is the capital of the province...

 in western Mozambique

Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique , is a country in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest...

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With a surface of 8,712 km² and a population estimated, in 2005, of 74,931 inhabitants, the district of Cahora Bassa has a population density of 8.5 inhabitants/km². The population is young (48% below 15 years of age) and mainly rural (79%).

Climate

The climate is predominantly hot semi-arid modified locally by altitude, with two distinct seasons, the rainy season (very short) and the dry season (very long). The average annual precipitation is about 635 mm, while annual potential evapotranspiration is about 1623 mm. Most rainfall occurs mainly in the period between December and February, varying significantly in quantitade and distribution from year to year.
The average annual temperature is 26°C.

Further reading

• District profile (PDF)