Shire River

Shire River at the southern end of Malawi on the border with Mozambique

The Shire River is the outflow of Lake Malawi. It is 402 km long and flows into the Zambezi River.

The water flow of the Shire is dependent on the water level of Lake Malawi. Normally he performs year-round water, but from the 1930s it is reported that he had done in the dry season of different years no water.

The Shire leaves the Lake Malawi at its southern end to about 10 km further to flow into the Malombesee. From there he moved 30 km sluggish along the marshy shore of a broad floodplain of the National Park Liwonde to the town of Liwonde to through rocky mountains through various rapids until Nkula Dam, a hydroelectric plant to flow from there soon, and continue through the Mpatamanga - gorge to the Kapichira waterfalls. Shortly after this he spreads out in the elephant march and before it flows behind Nsanje in the Ndinde March in the Zambezi.

Together with the Ruhuhu, the longest source of the river Shire, and the flow path that needs to be water for the crossing of Lake Malawi, the river is a total of about 1,200 km long.