Mkushi

Mkushi, also Old Mkushi, is a town with 12,308 inhabitants in the Central Province in Zambia. Mkushi is 1,100 meters high in the Tanzam Highway and at the TAZARA 110 km east of Kapiri Mposhi and 280 kilometers south of Mpika. Geologically, Mkushi at the southeast end of the Copperbelt. It is capital of the district with 107 438 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

Economy

The place lives off the land. The soils are acidic to Mkushi. But it is dolomite mined for limestone quarries in order for agriculture to improve acidic soils and to increase yields. With the occurrence in Solwezi, it is the only one in Zambia, which are exploited. There are deposits of copper, but not worth the degradation. August 2006 it was reported that close to 2.36 million tons of manganese ores Mkushi with a content of 46 % found in Chiwefwe, essential in the iron and aluminum metal industry.

Infrastructure

Mkushi offers several hotels a little further along the river, in Mkushi River. From Mkushi from the Kasanka National Park and the Kundalilafälle the river Mkushi be reached. The place has a dirt-track, 1,000 -meter-long airstrip, primary and secondary schools and a hospital.