page_title: Maranda, Zimbabwe
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Maranda, Zimbabwe / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Water supply, Maranda, Zimbabwe
context_page_description: Maranda, locally known as "No. 1", is a small business center on the northern edge of Mwenezi, Zimbabwe. It is the home town of Dr. Love, the former popular musician and Nikita Mangena, Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army military leader during the Second Chimurenga war. It is a center of trade in the district, with people coming to sell their cattle in week-long trade fairs. The centre has a clinic and government agriculture and water offices.
context_section_description: Maranda is surrounded by granite mountains such as Bangwe, Rasha and Nemande. These are the source of the Mushawe River, which flows through the business centre and supplies the centre with water. The water is abstracted from the alluvial aquifer below the Mushawe River, and is generally available year-round
  Rainfall is erratic and the vegetation is savanna dominated by grasses and Mopane trees. In the days of old, the villagers used to plant millet and sorghum but these days most villagers plant maize on account of the high yields associated with it.
caption: A young woman drinks water dug from the sand of the Mushawe alluvial aquifer. The pump for the Maranda water supply is in the background.
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