Mount Darwin (Zimbabwe)
Mount Darwin , also Darwin , Fura , Mount Fura ( Pfura means large rhinoceros in the Shona language ), is a place at an altitude of 900 m with about 5000 inhabitants in the province of Mashonaland Central in Zimbabwe about 100 km north of the capital Harare .
The place was once the administrative center for the Tribal Trust Lands Areas , i.e. those areas that were left to the locals during colonial times. Today people from the Mokorekore tribe live there. Before Inyati in North Matabeleland , the first Christian missionary station in Zimbabwe was here by the Portuguese Jesuit priest da Silveria in 1561, who came from Mozambique to missionary work for the people in the Zambezi Valley. So far there are no ethnological descriptions of him that would allow conclusions to be drawn about the population at that time.
During the civil war , this area near Mozambique, which borders the inaccessible slopes of the Zambezi Valley , the refuge of the guerrilla fighters, was one of the main combat areas. In 2004, 19 mass graves with a total of 5,000 corpses from this period were found and exhumed. Presumably the corpses of fallen guerrillas. It is a barren rural area that is one of the poorest in Zimbabwe. Even the mine in Shamva drew many people away from here at the time, but the civil war front on the site has almost completely emptied Mount Darwin.
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Coordinates: 16 ° 47 ′ S , 31 ° 34 ′ E