Sinazongwe

Sinazongwe is a town with 11,528 inhabitants, a little above the Karibastausees on the road from Maamba by Choma in the Southern Province in Zambia. It lies 500 meters above sea level and is the seat of administration of the same district with 80 455 inhabitants ( 2000 census ).

Sinazongwe is next Siavonga the second significant place on Lake Kariba, a typical Zambian town with administration of the territory of the southern lake, whose citizens live mainly from fishing. Kapenta, the Lake Tanganyika sardine, the most common processed here is kind There are a few small restaurants, a small hospital and a guest house. The Post is located a few kilometers in Sinazese.

Sinazongwe was after the flooding of the reservoir port and had the only lighthouse on the lake. However, this has not changed. There are certainly tourists, but only in order to get into the house and safari boats or to the lodge on the island 17 kilometers away Chete to drive on Zimbabwean side, the largest in the lake. Recently, a resort is built with chalets. There is a dirt airstrip.

With project funds, a school was built and drilled a well. From 1986 there was a 2,500 -acre cotton and wheat farm on the lake shore, but went bankrupt.