Mark Horner

History
🇹🇿 Tengeru is a market-town in the Arumeru district of the Arusha Region of northern Tanzania. Located below Mount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of the Great Rift Valley, surrounding Lake Duluti, Tengeru has a temperate climate. The town is just thirteen km east of the city of Arusha.
History In 1934, Kenyon Painter, an American investor, established a coffee research station at Tengeru, which today is operated by the Lyamungu Research Institute of the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture and known as the National Centre for Coffee Research.

Beginning in 1942 and continuing after World War II, a camp for displaced persons from central and eastern Europe was established at Tengeru just south of Lake Duluti. It primarily housed Poles, who were then resettled in the United States, Australia, northern Europe and other countries. At its height it housed over 4,000 people, but now all that remains of the camp is its large cemetery.[self-published source] The dairy and beef cattle farm that was run by the internees was taken over in 1952 by the Ministry of Agriculture and became the Tengeru Horticultural Research and Training Institute (HORTI).

Today, Tengeru has become a suburb of Arusha.

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Tengeru has a population of over 516,814 people. Tengeru also forms part of the wider Arusha Region which has a population of over 1,694,310 people. Tengeru is situated 13 km east of Arusha.

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Twin Towns, Sister Cities Tengeru has links with:

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