Penhalonga

Penhalonga is a city in the province of Manicaland in Zimbabwe with 4,477 inhabitants. The city is located 18 km north of the provincial capital of Mutare at the confluence of the rivers Imbezas and Sambi to the Mutare River in the Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe at an altitude of about 1200 m above sea level. NN.

The presence of gold deposits was known by Portuguese records from the 17th century. By the Portuguese Companhia de Moçambique ( Mozambique Company) and their representatives JH Jeffreys and Baron de Rezende 1888 antique gold mines were discovered, which were by Rezende and Count Penhalonga, the then Chairman of the Companhia de Moçambique, named. This was reclaimed in the sequence, the order founded in 1897 Phenalonga mine, the city developed. Today, the mines of the city, including the Redwing Mine, important for gold mining in Zimbabwe, also silver and gemstones are promoted.

In Phenalonga there is a monument, the Pioneer Nurses' Memorial, which commemorates the establishment of the first hospital in Manicaland by the Missionary Sisters of the Anglican Church.