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The Best Attractions In Masvingo Province

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Masvingo is a province in southeastern Zimbabwe. It has a population of 1.485 million as of the 2012 census, ranking fifth out of Zimbabwe's ten provinces. Established as Victoria Province by the British South Africa Company, it was one of the five original provinces of Southern Rhodesia. In 1982, two years after Zimbabwean independence, it was renamed Masvingo Province. The Great Zimbabwe national monuments, a world heritage site are located in the northern part of the province near Masvingo City. The province is divided into seven districts, including Masvingo District, which contains the provincial capital MasvingoCity. Masvingo Province is bordered...
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  • 1. Great Zimbabwe Masvingo
    Great Zimbabwe is a medieval city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. It was the capital of the Kingdom of Zimbabwe during the country's Late Iron Age. Construction on the monument began in the 11th century and continued until the 15th century. The edifices were erected by the ancestral Shona. The stone city spans an area of 7.22 square kilometres which, at its peak, could have housed up to 18,000 people. It is recognised as a World Heritage site by UNESCO. Great Zimbabwe is believed to have served as a royal palace for the local monarch. As such, it would have been used as the seat of political power. Among the edifice's most prominent features were its walls, some of which were over five metres high. They were constructed without mortar . ...
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  • 2. Gonarezhou National Park Chiredzi
    Gonarezhou National Park is a national park located in south-eastern Zimbabwe. It is situated in a relatively remote corner of Masvingo Province, south of Chimanimani along the Mozambique border. Owing to its vast size, rugged terrain and its location away from main tourist routes, large tracts of Gonarezhou remain as pristine wilderness. At 5,053 km2, Gonarezhou is the country's second largest game reserve after Hwange National Park. Gonarezhou is a Shona name meaning The Place of Elephants It forms part of the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Park, a peace park that links Gonarezhou with the Kruger National Park in South Africa and the Limpopo National Park in Mozambique. Animals can move freely between the three sanctuaries. The north-eastern end of the park is located within the Zambezian a...
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  • 3. Kyle Recreational Park Masvingo
    Lake Mutirikwi, formerly known as Lake Kyle, lies in south eastern Zimbabwe, south east of Masvingo. It is thought to have been named Lake Kyle, from the Kyle farm which occupied most of the land required for the lake, which in turn was named after the Kyle district in Scotland from which the pioneer of the Lowveld, Tom Murray MacDougall came originally. It covers about 90 km² and was created in 1960 with the construction of the Kyle Dam on the Mutirikwi River. The dam was built to provide fishing places for despite farmers Gskndjdwater to the farming estates on the lowveld to the southwest, around the town of Triangle, where the main crop has been sugar cane.Lake Kyle Recreational Park lies on the reservoir's northern shore, while there is a small recreational park on the southern shore....
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