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Gweru, originally known as Gwelo, is a city in central Zimbabwe. It is on the centre of Midlands Province . Originally an area known to the Ndebele as "The Steep Place" because of the Gweru River 's high banks , in 1894 it became the site of a military outpost established by Leander Starr Jameson . [ 2 ]
Gweru District, district number three of the 61 in Zimbabwe has Gweru City the 3rd largest city in Zimbabwe as its capital. Gweru City is also Midlands provincial capital. It is located 164 km northeast of Bulawayo and 275 km south-west-south of Harare via Mvuma ( A17 Highway ) or 278 km via Kwekwe ( A5 Highway ).
The name Gweru is a further distortion of the name Gwelo which was a distortion of the name Ikwelo meaning a very steep place where one would usually use a ladder upwards or downwards. Itself a distortion of the original Kalanga name of Gwelu an abbreviation of Gwelumatjena meaning the river of white stones.
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In the 2016 Census of Population, the RM of Antelope Park No. 322 recorded a population of 130 living in 54 of its 61 total private dwellings, a -13.3% change from its 2011 population of 150. With a land area of 612.9 km 2 (236.6 sq mi), it had a population density of 0.2/km 2 (0.5/sq mi) in 2016.
Antelope Park may refer to: Canada. Rural Municipality of Antelope Park No. 322, Saskatchewan, Canada; United States. Antelope Island State Park, a state park in ...
Arli National Park has several pools, such as Tounga where there is a waterhole and two pools which are often visited by up to twenty hippos. The park was earlier a habitat for the West African wild dog ( Lycaon pictus manguensis ), [ 5 ] although this canid is likely extirpated from the local area due to an expanding human population , and ...