Urambo

Urambo lies in the Nyamwezi country of western Tanzania, amid the wooded plateau between Lake Tanganyika and the interior. Nyamwezi merchants developed routes across this country before coastal caravans reached the great lake. By the early nineteenth century their caravans traveled to Bagamoyo on the Indian Ocean, carrying ivory and other goods. Their networks also reached the salt springs of Uvinza and iron-producing districts farther north.