Buzi River ( Portuguese : Rio Búzi ) is a river in Mozambique . The Buzi originates in the Eastern Highlands (or Manica Highlands) on the border of Mozambique and Zimbabwe, and flows eastward through Manica and Sofala provinces of Mozambique. It empties to the Mozambique Channel west of Beira , forming a large estuary with the Pungwe River .
6-752: Buzi (in Portuguese and officially Búzi ) is a town on the banks of the Buzi River , in Buzi District , Sofala Province , Mozambique . In colonial times it was known as Nova Lusitânia or Nova Luzitânia . The town was devastated by Cyclone Idai in 2019. The economy of Búzi is based on agriculture, sugar production specifically. Production by the Buzi Company was disrupted during the civil war when Renamo forces sabotaged their operations. Since 1994 its 9,000 workers were without work due to
12-621: Is 79 m³/s (2,790 cfs ) to 315 m /s (11,100 cu ft/s) at its mouth. It often causes floods, frequently forming a floodplain together with the larger Pungwe River . Dombé and Búzi are situated on the banks of the river. The Buzi and its principal tributaries rise in the Eastern Highlands , or Manica Highlands, along the border with Zimbabwe. Some of the Buzi's headwater streams rise in Zimbabwe, and in other places
18-542: The South African Compounds and Interior Mission (SACIM), endeavored to organize evangelical communities, but were arrested due to their possession of Zulu and English books. The Portuguese drafted them into the army and they spent four years at Lorenzo Marques , where they received instruction from the Swiss mission, learned Portuguese and received teaching licenses. On their return their evangelical work
24-579: The international border follows the watershed boundary. The Revué river is the main northern tributary, and its headwaters are in the Eastern Highlands near Machipanda . In 1968, Mozambique's colonial government built the hydroelectric Chicamba Dam across the Revué to create Lake Chicamba . The Lucite River , known upstream in Zimbabwe as the Rusitu or Lusitu, is the central tributary, joining
30-506: The state of disrepair of the machinery. The Buzi Company announced in 2011 that they would restart their sugar production and sugar milling. In 2013 Chinese investors applied to start sugar production by working 600 hectares of irrigation land, and by building a new sugar mill, the fourth in Mozambique. The Mission of St. António de Baradas and its chapel are situated here. In the 1920s, at nearby Chitikinya, local men who were converted by
36-634: Was renewed, but their school and worship services were closed when the authorities suspected foreign connections. In 1927 they were displaced by the expansion of the Buzi Sugar Company, and joined the Machemeje scheme of the Fairfield Association. Buzi River (Mozambique) The Buzi River is 374 km (232 mi) long, with a drainage basin 31,000 km (12,000 sq mi) in size. Its mean annual discharge
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