Kambove Territory
10°52′35″S 26°35′49″E / 10.87639°S 26.59694°E
Libethenite crystals to 3 mm from Kambove. Specimen size: 8.0 x 4.6 x 3.3 cm.
Kambove is a town in the Haut-Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Kambove lies at an altitude of 4783 ft (1457 m). Economic activity in the area includes cobalt processing. Kambove is the center of the Kambove mines region. Gécamines, a state-owned mining company, owns the Kamoya central, Kamoya south, Shangolowe and Kamfundwa mines. Ore from these mines is transported to the concentrator at Kambove for extraction of copper and cobalt.
Climate
Kambove has a humid subtropical climate (Köppen: Cwa).
| Climate data for Kambove | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Month | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | Year |
| Daily mean °C (°F) | 21.1 (70.0) |
21.1 (70.0) |
21.1 (70.0) |
20.4 (68.7) |
18.3 (64.9) |
16.0 (60.8) |
15.6 (60.1) |
17.8 (64.0) |
20.8 (69.4) |
22.3 (72.1) |
21.9 (71.4) |
21.2 (70.2) |
19.8 (67.6) |
| Average precipitation mm (inches) | 206 (8.1) |
198 (7.8) |
216 (8.5) |
67 (2.6) |
6 (0.2) |
0 (0) |
0 (0) |
1 (0.0) |
10 (0.4) |
70 (2.8) |
183 (7.2) |
224 (8.8) |
1,181 (46.4) |
| Source: Climate-Data.org | |||||||||||||
Notable births
Cécile Kyenge an Italian minister of Letta Cabinet was born in Kambove.