Chikwawa

Region

Chikwawa is a 41 m high small town in Malawi. Chikwawa is located on the Shire River and its tributary Kubula at the north end of the elephants march. It has 10,000 inhabitants ( 2006 estimate ), as agglomeration 15,000. It is the capital of the eponymous district with an area of ​​4755 km ² and 356 682 inhabitants.

Chikwawa is on the tarmac road from Blantyre to Bangula and on to Mozambique Beira direction. In Chikwawa performs a fixed bridge across the Shire. The next bridges are 40 kilometers upriver at Mpatamanga Gorge on the road Blantyre Mwanza (border) - Tete in Mozambique ( Zambezi bridge or ferry ) and 80 km downriver in Bangula. Chikwawa itself is distributed relatively widely on both sides of the Shire and the Kubula. The concrete bridge leads behind the Shire knee to the mouth of Kubula over the river, not quite halfway to the next knee.

Chikwawa is the northern, southern Bangula the center of the elephants march, a 80 km long and up to 30 km wide floodplain, which is largely in the rainy season under water. It is relatively densely populated. In their intensive arable farming and fruit growing is operated. Sugar cane is grown in the plantation economy. Chikwawa is the market town. Just north of Chikwawa begins the African Rif Mountains. From the town leads a paved trail to the waterfalls of Kapichira Shire River.

Chikwawa has primary and secondary schools, the Chikwawa District Hospital, a 1000 -meter-long airstrip, is Catholic diocese and seat of the Bishop. Geologically Chikwawa the Karoo of southern Africa, whose northern border is. It is suspected coal seams, which could be related to those of Moatize beyond the Marangwe mountain range in Mozambique.

Chikwawa is the seat of the diocese Chikwawa.

• Location in Malawi
• Southern Region (Malawi )
• Place in Africa