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Gorongosa National Park is at the southern end of the Great African Rift Valley in the heart of central Mozambique, Southeast Africa. The more than 4,000 square kilometres (1,500 sq mi) park comprises the valley floor and parts of surrounding plateaus. Rivers originating on nearby Mount Gorongosa (1,863 m (6,112 ft)) water the plain.
The Gorongosa Offensive was a military operation by the People's Republic of Mozambique beginning in January 1980 aimed at destroying the RENAMO bases around the Gorongosa area which were increasingly threatening roads, towns, communication lines, FPLM troops and more.
Protected areas in Mozambique are known as conservation areas, and are currently grouped into national parks, national reserves, forest reserves, wildlife utilisation areas (coutadas), community conservation areas, and private game farms (fazendas de bravio). There are also a number of areas that have been declared as protected areas under a ...
Gorongosa National Park, halfway between Zimbabwe and Beira was a large tourist attraction. [3] After independence from Portugal in 1975, the Mozambican Civil War that took place in the newly independent country between 1977 and 1992 decimated the tourism industry and wildlife conservation in Mozambique. [1]
Juliasse Sabao, supervisor of the Gorongosa Coffee Project, says that before coffee came to the national park, many people there were subsistence farmers growing just enough maize, beans, and peas ...
Gogogo Peak on Mount Gorongosa. Mount Gorongosa is an inselberg in Sofala Province of central Mozambique. Its highest peak, Gogogo, reaches an elevation of 1,863 meters (6,112 feet). It was created by Karoo Volcanism. [1] The upper zone of the mountain (above 700 meters) was made part of Gorongosa National Park by the Mozambican government in ...
According to the Köppen climate classification, the district are in two climate zones, tropical wet dry (aw) and, in the mountains (Serra de Gorongosa) tropical temperate humid (cw). The average annual rainfall is 1,241 millimetres (48.9 in). [1] The district is dominated by the Gorongosa National Park, which is located in the East African ...
A special story takes place in the African country of Mozambique, taking place in a long-abandoned tourist camp in the vast Gorongosa National Park. In one of the buildings that is still intact, Cabin #3, some lions have taken up permanent occupancy. Here a lioness raises her cubs and teaches them to survive. [265]