Tete, Mozambique

Tete
Tete
Country	Mozambique
Province	Tete Province
District	Cidade de Tete
Area
• Total	149.3 km2 (57.6 sq mi)
Elevation	140 m (460 ft)
Population (2017 census)
• Total	305,722
• Density	2,000/km2 (5,300/sq mi)
Climate	BSh

Tete is the capital city of

Portuguese colonial era, Tete continues to dominate the west-central part of the country and region, and is the largest city on the Zambezi. In the local language, Nyungwe

, Tete (or Mitete) means "reed".

History

The region was an important

Overseas Province of Mozambique in 1959. After the Portuguese Colonial War in Portuguese Africa and the April 1974 military coup in Lisbon, the then Portuguese Overseas Province of Mozambique become an independent state. The newly independent People's Republic of Mozambique, created in 1975 after the exodus of Mozambique's ethnic Portuguese, descended into civil war between 1977 and 1992.^{[citation needed}

]

Transportation

Chingozi Airport (IATA: TET, ICAO: FQTT) on the northeastern side of the city has a 2.4 km paved runway. The one-kilometre-long Samora Machel Bridge, finished in 1973 by the Portuguese and designed by Edgar Cardoso, is a vital link on the major highway linking not just the northern and southern parts of the country, but Zimbabwe and Malawi as well. A second bridge south of the city was opened in late 2014 to allow traffic to Zambia or Malawi to bypass the provincial capital.^[1] Tete's bridges, the rail Dona Ana Bridge, and the Armando Emilio Guebuza Bridge at Caia are the only bridges across the lower Zambezi.

Demographics

Year	Population^[2]
1997 census	101,984
2007 census	155,870
2017 census	305,722

Projected to be the ninth fastest growing city on the African continent between 2020 and 2025, with a 5.56% growth. ^[3]

Climate

Tete has a

hot semi-arid climate (Köppen climate classification

BSh).

Climate data for Tete
Month	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Year
Record high °C (°F)	43 (109)	43 (109)	43 (109)	43 (109)	40 (104)	39 (102)	36 (97)	40 (104)	44 (111)	45 (113)	46 (115)	44 (111)	46 (115)
Mean daily maximum °C (°F)	33.5 (92.3)	33.2 (91.8)	33.3 (91.9)	32.7 (90.9)	31.0 (87.8)	28.6 (83.5)	29.0 (84.2)	30.5 (86.9)	33.6 (92.5)	35.8 (96.4)	36.2 (97.2)	34.5 (94.1)	32.7 (90.8)
Daily mean °C (°F)	28.5 (83.3)	28.2 (82.8)	28.1 (82.6)	27.1 (80.8)	24.7 (76.5)	22.3 (72.1)	22.3 (72.1)	23.9 (75.0)	26.9 (80.4)	29.2 (84.6)	30.0 (86.0)	29.1 (84.4)	26.7 (80.1)
Mean daily minimum °C (°F)	23.4 (74.1)	23.2 (73.8)	22.8 (73.0)	21.4 (70.5)	18.3 (64.9)	16.0 (60.8)	15.6 (60.1)	17.3 (63.1)	20.2 (68.4)	22.6 (72.7)	23.8 (74.8)	23.6 (74.5)	20.7 (69.2)
Record low °C (°F)	7 (45)	8 (46)	9 (48)	11 (52)	10 (50)	7 (45)	8 (46)	9 (48)	10 (50)	10 (50)	10 (50)	11 (52)	7 (45)
Average precipitation mm (inches)	166.7 (6.56)	142.1 (5.59)	95.5 (3.76)	15.0 (0.59)	5.8 (0.23)	3.5 (0.14)	2.9 (0.11)	1.8 (0.07)	0.8 (0.03)	10.8 (0.43)	45.6 (1.80)	139.4 (5.49)	629.9 (24.8)
Average precipitation days	10.8	9.2	6.6	2.4	0.9	1.2	1.0	0.4	0.2	1.1	4.4	9.6	47.8
Average relative humidity (%)	69	73	67	61	60	61	59	54	47	43	54	62	59
Mean monthly sunshine hours	201.5	192.1	235.6	240.0	254.2	243.0	235.6	272.8	267.0	282.1	249.0	204.6	2,877.5
Source 1: World Meteorological Organization,^[4] Weltwetter Spiegel Online (sun and relative humidity)^[5]
Source 2: BBC Weather ^[6]