Mount Darwin, Zimbabwe

Mount Darwin, Darwin, Fura, Mount Fura ( Pfura means in the language of Shona large rhinoceros), is situated in an altitude of 900 meters, village with 5,000 inhabitants in the province of Mashonaland Central, Zimbabwe 100 km north of the capital Harare.

The place was once the administrative center for the Tribal Trust Lands areas, ie those areas which have been left to the locals in colonial times. Today people can live from the tribe of Mokorekore. Even before Inyati in Nordmatabeleland here was the first mission of Christians in Zimbabwe by the Portuguese Jesuit priest since 1561 Silveria, who evangelized the people coming from Mozambique in the Zambezi Valley. From him are so far no ethnological descriptions, allowed conclusions to the population then.

In the civil war was one of the area close to Mozambique, which borders on the less accessible slopes of the Zambezi valley, the refuge area of ​​guerrillas to the main battle areas. In 2004, 19 mass graves were a total of 5,000 bodies found from this period, and exhumed. Presumably, the corpses of fallen guerrillas. It is a rural area with poor soil, which is among the poorest in Zimbabwe. Even the mine in Shamva the time drew away many people from here, but the civil war front in front of the place has Mount Darwin almost completely emptied.