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Mutange Dam
Mutange Dam, across Mutange River, is a manmade earth fill embarkment dam located in Chisina Village, 30 km east of Gokwe centre, Gokwe and 35 km northwest of Empress Mine, in the Midlands province, Zimbabwe, Midlands Province of Zimbabwe. Mutange Dam is 42 km by road from Gokwe centre, Gokwe and 49 km from Columbina Rural Service Center, Empress, 117 km from Kadoma and 146 km from Kwekwe via Columbina Rural Service Center, Empress (147 km via Zhombe Joel). It is owned and operated by the Ministry of Water Resources and Development (Zimbabwe), Ministry of Water Resources and Development. Background Mutange Dam was constructed mainly to augment fossil borehole water supply to Gokwe Centre. It has a capacity of 4.950 million m³. Initially, the estimated cost of construction of the dam was $8,224,504.00 (2010-2014), but because of economic constraints faced by Zimbabwe contraction which took too long to complete, it cost over $130 million due to i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe (), officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in Southeast Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa to the south, Botswana to the south-west, Zambia to the north, and Mozambique to the east. The capital and largest city is Harare. The second largest city is Bulawayo. A country of roughly 15 million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona language, Shona, and Northern Ndebele language, Ndebele the most common. Beginning in the 9th century, during its late Iron Age, the Bantu peoples, Bantu people (who would become the ethnic Shona people, Shona) built the city-state of Great Zimbabwe which became one of the major African trade centres by the 11th century, controlling the gold, ivory and copper trades with the Swahili coast, which were connected to Arab and Indian states. By the mid 15th century, the city-state had been abandoned. From there, the Kingdom of Zimbabwe was established, fol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
