Cyclone Idai floods near Beira 2019-3-19 by ESA Copernicus Sentinel-1

Buzi River ( pt, Rio Búzi) is a river in

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. The Buzi River originates in the

Eastern Highlands :''"Eastern Highlands" also refers to Eastern Highlands Province in Papua New Guinea, and part of the Great Dividing Range, Australia.'' The Eastern Highlands, also known as the Manica Highlands, is a mountain range on the border of Zimbabw ...

(or Manica Highlands) on the border of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and flows eastward through Manica and

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provinces of Mozambique. It empties to the

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west of Beira, forming a large estuary with the

Pungwe River Pungwe River ( pt, Rio Púngoè, links=no or ''Rio Púnguè'') is a long river in Zimbabwe and Mozambique. It rises below Mount Nyangani in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe and then flows southeasteastward through the Manica and Sofala provinces ...

. The Buzi River is long, with a

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in size. Its mean annual discharge is 79 m³/s (2,790 cfs) at its mouth. It often causes floods, frequently forming a floodplain together with the larger

Dombé Dombé is a town on the north bank of the Buzi River in Sussundenga District of Manica Province in central Mozambique dombe. During the Frelimo-Renamo struggle of the 70s to early 90s it was a strategic town where the FPLM maintained a heavy mech ...

and Búzi are situated on the banks of the river. The Buzi and its principal tributaries rise in the

, or Manica Highlands, along the border with Zimbabwe. Some of the Buzi's headwater streams rise in Zimbabwe, and in other places the international border follows the watershed boundary. The Revué river is the main northern tributary, and its headwaters are in the Eastern Highlands near

Machipanda Machipanda is a town in Manica District, in the middle of Manica Province, Mozambique, near the border with Zimbabwe. Transport The city has one of the most important railway stations on the Beira–Bulawayo railway (or Machipanda railway), t ...

. In 1968, Mozambique's colonial government built the

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Chicamba Dam across the Revué to create Lake Chicamba.Briggs, Philip (2011)''Mozambique''. Brandt Travel Guides, 2011. p. 217 The

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, known upstream in Zimbabwe as the Rusitu or Lusitu, is the central tributary, joining the Buzi above the Revué. The Mossurize River joins the Buzi from the southwest, above the Lucite. The Save River watershed lies west and southwest of the Buzi watershed. The Pungwe watershed lies to the north.

References

Pungwe River Project

NASA: Earth from Space

Project: Vulnerability mapping Búzi

Notes

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