Honde River
Honde RiverpronouncedHorn-deis a river inEastern HighlandsofZimbabwewhich runs through theHonde Valley.[1]It flows fromMount Inyanganion the western edges of Honde Valley where it is joined by several of its major tributaries: the rivers Mupenga, Buu, Mtarazi and Ngarura. It deposits its waters into thePungwe River,already in Mozambique, which in turn empties in the Indian Ocean.
Mtarazi Falls,Zimbabwe's highest at 762 metres (2,500 ft) flows into the Honde south ofPungwe Gorgeat the Honde River valley just outsideNyanga National Park.Parts of the Honde in the southern Nyanga support lush vegetation, the closest Zimbabwe has to Jungle.[2]Further south, the Honde provides water for communal irrigation in an otherwise dry area.[3]The 500 square kilometres (190 sq mi) of the Honde Valley in Zimbabwe are extensively cultivated, often with gravity fed irrigation channels. Extensive use is made of the many smaller tributaries feeding into the river in this portion of the Honde Valley.[4]
The Honde River forms part of theMozambique-Zimbabwe border before flowing into Pungwe river which finally empties into the Indian Ocean atBeira.[5]
References
[edit]- ^zimparks.com: Nyanga ParkArchived2008-10-26 at theWayback Machine.
- ^Hiking Zimbabwe's Highest Mountain:British Airways Travel Guide. "take a path down into the dense vegetation of the Honde River, the closest there is to jungle in Zimbabwe."
- ^Nyanga - a living treasure map.PATTIE PINK, The Zimbabwean, August 2005.
- ^Working Paper No. 32. Assessment of the Potential for Non-motorised Irrigation of Small Farms from Streams in Manicaland, Zimbabwe.Development Technology Unit. Department of Engineering, Warwick University, Coventry (January 1991)
- ^1988 Global Register of Extreme Flood Events.Dartmouth College, 2003.
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