Luchenza

Region

Luchenza is a small town with 12,500 inhabitants ( 2006 estimate ) in southern Malawi. It lies in the flat grasslands between Shire Highlands and Mulanje Massif in Thyolo district. Through them lead the road Thyolo - Mulanje and the route of the Malawi Railways Beira Blantyre. In the town there are shops, tailors, woodworking, blacksmiths, glazier. The houses are partly made ​​of solid concrete. From here, tea from Thyolo and Mulanje of wood are transported to Blantyre. The grassland itself, ranging 100 km north to the Chilwa Lake and surrounding as a giant swamp area is sparsely populated, because it lies in the rain shadow of high mountains and watered by these manufactures.

Luchenza has primary and secondary schools and a hospital.

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