is a town located in Funai District, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 13,195 in 6188 households and a population density of 44 persons per km<sup>2</sup>. The total area of the town is . Its name comes from the first syllable of Kyà Âto and the former town of Tamba, a namesake of the historic Tanba Province.
Kyà Âtamba is located between the Fukuchiyama basin and the Kameoka basins in the central part of the Tamba region in central Kyoto Prefecture. the southern part of the town is the watershed between the Yodo River system and the Yura River systems.
Hyà Âgo Prefecture
Kyoto Prefecture
Kyà Âtamba has a Humid subtropical climate (Köppen Cfa) characterized by warm summers and cool winters with light to no snowfall. The average annual temperature in Kyà Âtamba is 13.7 ðC. The average annual rainfall is 1771 mm with September as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around 25.5 ðC, and lowest in January, at around 2.4 ðC.
Per Japanese census data, the population of Kyà Âtamba peaked around 1950 and has declined by roughly half in the decades since.
The area of the modern town of Kyà Âtamba was within ancient Tanba Province. In the Edo Period, most of the area was tenryà  territory controlled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate. The village of Shuchi was established with the creation of the modern municipalities system on April 1, 1889. It was elevated to town status on July 19, 1901, and changed its name to Tanba on April 1, 1955. The town of Kyà Âtamba was founded on October 11, 2005, by the merger of the former towns of Tanba, Mizuho and Wachi, all from Funai District.
Kyà Âtamba has a mayor-council form of government with a directly elected mayor and a unicameral town council of 13 members. Kyà Âtamba, together with the city of Nantan contributes one member to the Kyoto Prefectural Assembly. In terms of national politics, the town is part of Kyoto4th district of the lower house of the Diet of Japan.
Kyà Âtamba has an economy based on agriculture and forestry. The main products include grapes, matsutake mushrooms, black soybeans, chestnuts, Tamba beef, Kyà Âtamba pork and Tanba wine.
Kyà Âtamba has five public elementary schools and three public middle schools operated by the town government and one public high school operated by the Kyoto Prefectural Department of Education. The prefecture also operates one forestry training school,
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