Mount Tumbine is a mountain in northern

Mozambique Mozambique (), officially the Republic of Mozambique ( pt, Moçambique or , ; ny, Mozambiki; sw, Msumbiji; ts, Muzambhiki), is a country located in southeastern Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi ...

. It lies in

Milange District Milange District is a district of Zambezia Province in Mozambique. The town of Milange is the district center. History Milange District was one of the areas where the Revolutionary Party of Mozambique (PRM) operated during the Mozambican Civil W ...

of Zambézia Province, immediately east of the town of

Milange Milange is a town in Zambezia Province of Mozambique. It is the district center of Milange District. Timberlake, Jonathan; Julian Bayliss, Tereza Alves, Susana Baena, Jorge Francisco, Tim Harris, Camila da Sousa (2007). "The Biodiversity and Conserv ...

. The

Ruo River Ruo River is the largest tributary of the Shire River in southern Malawi and Mozambique. It originates from the Mulanje Massif (Malawi) and forms of the Malawi-Mozambique border. It joins the Shire River at Chiromo. The Ruo River watershed incl ...

, which forms the border between Mozambique and

Malawi Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in Southeastern Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the west, Tanzania to the north and northeast ...

, runs north of the mountain, separating it from the larger

Mulanje Massif The Mulanje Massif, also known as Mount Mulanje, is a large inselberg in southern Malawi. Sapitwa Peak, the highest point on the massif at 3,002 m, is the highest point in Malawi. It lies 65 km east of Blantyre, rising sharply from the su ...

in Malawi. It is surrounded by plains on the east, south, and west. The mountain consists of a nearly circular intrusion of

syenite Syenite is a coarse-grained intrusive igneous rock with a general composition similar to that of granite, but deficient in quartz, which, if present at all, occurs in relatively small concentrations (< 5%). Some syenites contain larger proport ...

, 8 km in diameter.Woolley, Alan Robert (1987). ''Alkaline Rocks and Carbonatites of the World: Africa''. Geological Society of London, 1987. p. 194. It is similar in structure and composition to the nearby Mulanje Massif.

Tea Tea is an aromatic beverage prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured or fresh leaves of '' Camellia sinensis'', an evergreen shrub native to East Asia which probably originated in the borderlands of southwestern China and northe ...

is grown on the slopes of Mt. Tumbine. Patches of native montane forest survive on the mountain.

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