Murewa

Murewa is a district capital in the province of Mashonaland East, Zimbabwe, 75 km east of the capital, Harare, on the road to Tete in Mozambique. The sea level is slightly below 1400 m. With 8,398 inhabitants ( 2002 census ) Murewa is the largest town in the district. But public and private buildings are rather simple and give the place the character of a Township. In the vicinity are the Murewa Caves and other rock overhangs and caves with stone-age rock paintings of the once living here san, at least 1000 years old.

In recent years, an orphanage for AIDS orphans ( Surviving Child Orphan Trust) was established by the Methodist Mission in Murewa.

The district Murewa extends over 120 km from the 1740m high Mount ahwa (10 km north of Macheke ) in the south to the Mazoe River to the north. The altitude of the valley areas located in the south and in the middle of the district at 1400 m, at the Mazoe between 700 and 800 m. In addition to hills rise with gentle slopes and witnesses mountains with steep rock faces.

The large majority of residents are Shona. Three-quarters of the area are determined by traditional African agriculture, the southern district of commercial farms. In the south, there are also three small hill fort from the late phase of old Zimbabwean culture ( Mutapa state ).