Nyanga Mountains, Mutare is one such tourist attraction in the city that you must miss visting. The Nyanga Mountains in Mutare form the northernmost extent of the Eastern Highlands in Zimbabwe. The mountains lie about 70 km north-east of Mutare in two rural Districts, Nyanga and Mutasa. The mountains are a one of the most popular tourist destination. They attract a large number of visitors every year. Visit the Nyanga Mountains, Mutare with your whole family when you come here for a trip.
The Nyanga National Park forms the core of this site and is also a part of an adjacent, contiguous IBA, Nyanga lowlands/Honde valley. The park is surrounded by forestry plantations, privately owned commercial farms, tea estates and communal lands.
The topography of the Nyanga Mountains, Mutare is very diverse, with a rolling hilly plateau in the west and north giving rise to several large rivers. Some of the rivers are the Kairezi, Nyangombe and Pungwe. The plateau is acutely bisected by the gorges of the Pungwe and Nyazengu rivers in the south. Here you will find numerous high waterfalls. The Mutarazi waterfall is one of the highest in Africa and it drops from 380 meters. The eastern slopes of the Nyanga Mountains, Mutare, form a steep-sided escarpment, dropping down to 900 meters into the Honde valley. The west side of the mountains has an escarpment that drops from Rukotso and World's View to the Nyanga North Communal Land.
The eastern slopes of the Nyanga Mountains in Mutare are often covered in mist. The temperatures above 1,800 meters are cool and relatively temperate. Frost is common in winter and the mountains have extensive Afromontane vegetation at high altitude. The vegetation comprises of fine-leaved dwarf shrub land with a large variety of herbaceous plants, including some Afro-alpine species. The Afromontane rainforests are found on the eastern side of the mountains. There are some small patches of drier Widdringtonia coniferous forest. The Acacia woodlands occur in isolated patches at the base of granite kopjes. There are also extensive plantations and forests of non-native Acacia and Pinus throughout the area.
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