Mawa Gare
village in Bas-Uélé, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Mawa Gare (Mawa Station) is a village in the Bas-Uélé province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was a station on the defunct Vicicongo line, a railway.
Location
Mawa Gare is in the Bas-Uélé province, Democratic Republic of the Congo.
It is at an elevation of about 703 metres (2,306 ft) above sea level.
The former Komba-Mungbere railway runs through the village from west to east.
The RS414 road runs from Niapu to the southwest through Mawa to Poko to the north.
Mawa-Gare is an administrative post in the Poko Territory.
It is in the Viadana health zone, and has a health station.
Colonial period
The main axis of the Vicicongo line built by the Société des Chemins de Fer Vicinaux du Congo ran east from Zobia through Mawa to Isiro.
This section was opened on 31 December 1934.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mawa Gare” as village in Bas-Uélé, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
Why this record matters
The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as village in Bas-Uélé, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 29, 2021. The linked authority identifier is Q106483975. Authority coordinates are 2.738, 26.693. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1934.
A single description cannot reconcile every naming convention, rebuilding phase or administrative transfer associated with a place. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.
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Questions for further research
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This entry incorporates text from “Mawa Gare” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.