Leribe Craft Center
Leribe may refer to: * Hlotse or Leribe, market town in Lesotho founded in 1876 * Leribe District Leribè is a Districts of Lesotho, district of Lesotho. It has an area of 2,828 km2 and a population in 2016 of approximately 337,500. Hlotse is the capital or Camptown (Lesotho), camptown of the district. The district has one additional town, ...

Hlotse
Hlotse (also Leribe) is an important market town in Lesotho. It is situated on the Hlotse River, near the South African border. The town was founded in 1876 by a British missionary, Reverend John Widdicombe. It was a colonial centre until Lesotho gained its independence. The population in 2016 was 38,558. The alternate name, Leribe, comes from the adjacent French Protestant Leribe Mission, founded in 1859 by François Coillard François Coillard (17 July 1834 in Asnières-les-Bourges, Cher, France – 27 May 1904 in Lealui, Barotseland, Northern Rhodesia) was a French missionary who worked for the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society in southern Africa. Life Coillard wa .... Hlotse is also called Leribe because it is the camptown in the district of Leribe. The main Basotho headquarters for Help Lesotho is in Hlotse. Places of interest Three sightseeing locations are the Leribe Craft Centre, the statue in front of the District Administration office, and an old military l ...
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