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Big Tree at Victoria Falls. Species. Adansonia digitata. Location. Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The Big Tree is a large baobab [1] of the species Adansonia digitata situated close to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. It is unusually large for a baobab, [2] measuring 22.40 meters (~73 ft) in girth and 24 meters (~79 ft) tall. [3]
Victoria Falls (Lozi: Mosi-oa-Tunya, "Thundering Smoke"; Tonga: Shungu Namutitima, "Boiling Water") is a waterfall on the Zambezi River, located on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. [ 2 ] It is one of the world's largest waterfalls, with a width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft). The region around it is inhabited by several species of plants and animals.
The 950 hectares (2,300 acres) Chirinda Forest Botanical Reserve is situated on the slopes of Mount Selinda, 30 km (19 miles) south of Chipinge, in the Chipinge Highlands of Manicaland, Zimbabwe, [2][3] and is administered by the Forestry Commission. [4] The reserve is situated at between 900 and 1,200 m (3,000 and 3,900 ft) in altitude, [5 ...
According to vaDoma mythology, their ancestors emerged from a baobab tree.Upon descending from it, they walked upright to hunt and gather the fruits of the land. [4] The name vaDoma is also used in the Zambezi region for a semi-mythical people characterized as magical, capricious, hard to find, and living among the trees.
Deforestation is the purposeful clearing of forested land. [1] Zimbabwe hosts some of the most important biodiversity hotspots in the world and is home to species of plants and animals. Forests currently cover around 45% of the country’s total land area, but deforestation is an increasingly pressing issue, resulting in forests disappearing ...
Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site [2] that is home to one-half of the Mosi-oa-Tunya—"The Smoke that Thunders", known worldwide as Victoria Falls —on the Zambezi River. The river forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, so the falls are shared by the two countries, and the park is twin to the Victoria Falls ...
The national park is one of the oldest in Zimbabwe, established as Rhodes Inyanga National Park, a bequest from Cecil Rhodes. The original park borders extended beyond Udu Dam, along the east bank of the Nyangombe River to the north of the current park boundary. [4] This extension was sold in the 1970s, [5] but the Warrendale section ...
65. Diameter. 4.5. Big Tree (or The Big Tree in Chirinda Forest) is the tallest indigenous tree in Zimbabwe, and a declared National Monument. The tree is 65 metres tall and 4.5 metres wide. [1] Its age is approximately 1,000 years. [2] The tree is located in the centre of Chirinda Forest (formerly known as Selinda) in southeast Zimbabwe at the ...