Tengeru | |
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town | |
  Tengeru | |
| Coordinates:3°22′27″S36°47′07″E / 3.37417°S 36.78528°E /-3.37417; 36.78528 | |
| Country |  Tanzania |
| Region | Arusha Region |
| Elevation | 1,387 m (4,551 ft) |
| Time zone | UTC+3 (EAT) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (not observed) |
| Climate | Cwb |
Tengeru is a market-town[1] in theArusha Region of northernTanzania. Located belowMount Meru on the eastern edge of the eastern branch of theGreat Rift Valley, surroundingLake Duluti, Tengeru has a temperate climate. The town is thirteen kilometres east of the city ofArusha.[2]
In 1934,Kenyon Painter, an American investor, established a coffee research station at Tengeru,[3] which today is operated by the Lyamungu Research Institute of the Tanzania Ministry of Agriculture and known as the National Centre for Coffee Research.[4]
Beginning in 1942 and continuing after World War II, acamp fordisplaced persons from central and eastern Europewas established at Tengeru [pl], just south of Lake Duluti. It primarily housedPoles, who were then resettled mainly to Britain, but partly also to the United States, Australia, and other countries.[5] At its height it housed over 4,000 people, but now all that remains of the camp is its large cemetery.[1][6][7][8][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).[9]
Today, Tengeru has become a suburb of Arusha.[10]
The town is twinned with the town ofLeominster in theUK