Nsanje

Region

Nsanje (former name: Port Herald) is a city on the northern end of the Ndinde - march of the Shire River in Malawi. Nsanje has 22,500 inhabitants ( 2006 estimate ) a steeply rising trend. It is the capital of the eponymous district, which is 1942 km ² and 194 924 inhabitants. Nsanje is a regional economic center, as there is a station on the railway line Beira Blantyre here. The city has a 1000 -meter runway. In October 2010 an inland port was inaugurated on the Shire River, which is connected across the Zambesi to the Indian Ocean. This should reduce the import and export costs of the single State.

Nsanje is located in the marshland of the Shire, but also on the northern edge of a semi -arid zone. Most of the houses in the city are mud houses. The village lies on a narrow point between higher mountains and march, whose residents provide here. Here not only lead gravel road and railway line along many valleys open in the area around Nsanje. Paved roads do not exist in Nsanje.

The southern Malawi is considered neglected for decades. This is not only because of the destroyed in the civil war in Mozambique Zambezi bridge, and thus at the interrupted transport connection to the port city of Beira, but also on the politically difficult borderline situation. Up to the Zambezi River in Mozambique, the Malawi Kwacha is a common means of payment. Within a radius of 50 km, the people come to the hospital in Nsanje. Many Mozambicans also use the churches and mosques, the market and the services in Nsanje.

In Nsanje ceramics of Longwe culture were found, which are interpreted in the context of the early Munhumutapa Empire, whose heartland is no 100 kilometers away in Mazoe Valley, which is easily accessible via the navigable rivers Shire, Zambezi and Mazoe.