Kirumi Bridge, Cable-stayed bridge across Mara River in Mara Region, Tanzania
Kirumi Bridge is a cable-stayed bridge carrying the road across the Mara River, where it forms the boundary between Butiama and Rorya Districts in Tanzania's Mara Region. Its deck runs between the two riverbanks at the crossing point.
Kirumi Bridge was financed through a loan from the African Development Fund. It was inaugurated in October 1985 by Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first president, on the Mara River at the boundary of Butiama and Rorya Districts in Mara Region.
The bridge's Swahili name, Daraja la Kirumi, is the form used in the Tanzanian Wikipedia article and in everyday speech; "daraja" simply means bridge. It stands on the Mara River at the boundary of Butiama and Rorya Districts, so people on both banks use the same name for it.
The bridge carries the road across the Mara River at the boundary between Butiama and Rorya Districts in Mara Region, in northern Tanzania. It is a river crossing on that district-boundary road, so travellers heading between the two districts pass over it.
The bridge was financed through a loan from the African Development Fund, and it was inaugurated in October 1985 by Julius Nyerere, Tanzania's first president. The crossing links Butiama and Rorya Districts in Mara Region.
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