Mpanda

Mpanda is a metropolis in Katavi Region of Tanzania, East Africa with a postcode number 50100. It is the executive centre of Katavi Region, Mpanda District and is itself one of the 4 districts of the area. Mpanda is a "frontier town" within the a long way west of Tanzania, roughly 500 km north of Mbeya and 380 km south-west of Tabora. It is the executive headquarters for the Katavi Region, created through subdivision of the Rukwa Region in 2012 and for the Mpanda District.

It is an critical centre within the rural economic system, mainly for the advertising and marketing and transshipment of rice and maize. The Katavi region is more and more of hobby to mineral prospectors, particularly for gold. It is likewise a staging factor for journeying the beautiful Katavi National Park, with its headquarters just 35 km to the south at Sitalike. The Park has a great pass-phase of East African flora and fauna however is perhaps nice acknowledged for its populations of hippopotamus.As but all roads into Mpanda from Sumbawanga, Tabora or Kigoma continue to be unsealed and can for brief durations grow to be impassable at the peak of the wet season.