Kipengere Range

The Livingstone Mountains or Kipengere Range are a 200 km long mountain range in the south of Tanzania.

They border on the north by the Poroto mountains, climb up to Mount Rungwe, form only at the valley over Matema, then to Malawi a high cliff and walk south to the valley of Ruhuhu back from. Fast parallel and east of the Livingstone Mountains to the chain of Kipengere Mountains, whose highest point is 2,961 m of Mtorwi and their upstream mountain range, the Livingstone Mountains are.

The Livingstone Mountains, especially the summit of Jamimbi and Chamembe, climb very steep and rugged from Lake Malawi up to about 2000-2488 m, where they form a very difficult and sparsely populated plateau with mostly open grassland and few but very dense forests in sinks, but jagged and with very significant differences in height. Without a compass and GPS itself should move there and no one for cars is opened there hardly anything. The Usangu Game Reserve in the humid lowlands and the Ruaha National Park in the valley of the Ruaha River and the Mpanga / Kipengere Game Reserve form the so-called Igando - Igawa wildlife corridor, so a trail for wildlife during the dry season to the water-bearing streams and rivers this high mountain, for the interested absence of any tourist infrastructure WWF significantly more than any tour operator. Most units can be found in missions that may be a few days ' march away from each other. On the high plateau itself there are few animal species, two species of gazelle and numerous birds.

The climate of the plateau is rough and knows night frosts. The introduction of European crops has proved to be successful. Geologic outweigh quartzite and sandstone.

At the foot of the Livingstone Mountains are located at the northern end of Lake Malawi Matema and at the mouth of the Ruhuhu Manda, the former Wiedhafen.