Penhalonga
Penhalonga is a town in the province of Manicaland in Zimbabwe with 4,477 inhabitants. The city is located 18 km north of the provincial capital Mutare at the confluence of the Imbezas and Sambi rivers to the Mutare River in the eastern highlands of Zimbabwe at an altitude of about 1200 m above sea level. NN.
The presence of gold was known from Portuguese records from the 17th century. The Portuguese Companhia de Moçambique (Mozambique Company) and their representatives JH Jeffreys and Baron de Rezende discovered ancient gold mining sites in 1888, which were named after Rezende and Count Penhalonga, the then chairman of the Companhia de Moçambique. These were subsequently redeveloped. The city developed around the Phenalonga mine founded in 1897. Today the city's mines, including the Redwing Mine, are important for gold mining in Zimbabwe, silver and gemstones are also mined.
In Phenalonga there is a memorial, the Pioneer Nurses' Memorial, which commemorates the establishment of the first hospital in Manicaland by Missionary Sisters of the Anglican Church.
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1982 census
- ^ British South Africa Company : Historical Catalog & Souvenir of Rhodesia - from Empire Exhibition. Johannesburg, 1936-37
Coordinates: 18 ° 53 ' S , 32 ° 41' E