Shire Highlands

The Shire Highlands is a stretched, approximately 130 km long mountain range along the Shire River of Bangula in the south to the north Liwonde. Essentially, it is a long plateau at about 900 m altitude, 1,462 m, the Soche 1,533 m, the Ndirande 1,612 m, the Chiradzulu protrude from the south to north mountains like Thyolo 1,773 m and the Zomba Plateau with more than 2,000 m.

Because of its temperate climate ( comparable to northern Italy) and the monsoon rainfall, which can bubble up most of the sources of the Shire highlands year-round, the once nearly uninhabited mountain ridge in English was very popular, there soon with the cultivation of tea, wood, grain intensive plantation economy operated. Not by chance is the economic center of Malawi, Blantyre, there.

Tourism, the Zomba Plateau is interesting about the same city with the hotel ( Kuchawe -Inn ) next to Blantyre, where to hike well over wide grassy plains and through dense forests. The steep drop in the valley of the Shire allowed a magnificent panoramic view. As the Mulanje (Mountain), it is a popular destination.

  • Mountains in Africa
  • Geography (Malawi )
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